Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, for [1850]-71, Exhibiting the Most Important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology, Biology, Botany, Mineralogy, Meteorology, Geography, Antiquities, Etc., Together with Notes on the Progress of Science ... a List of Recent Scientific Publications; Obituaries of Eminent Scientific Men, Etc. ...Gould and Lincoln, 1865 |
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... surface on one side and a concave on the other , exactly corresponding to curves which had been previously deter- mined , and regulated by a process beautifully simple and certain , is , perhaps , at once the most important and the most ...
... surface on one side and a concave on the other , exactly corresponding to curves which had been previously deter- mined , and regulated by a process beautifully simple and certain , is , perhaps , at once the most important and the most ...
Pagina 35
... surface , and not penetrating to the centre , the formation of large crystals will be left undisturbed . Broken car- axles sometimes appear to have undergone a similar change . The fact is that they generally exhibit a crystalline ...
... surface , and not penetrating to the centre , the formation of large crystals will be left undisturbed . Broken car- axles sometimes appear to have undergone a similar change . The fact is that they generally exhibit a crystalline ...
Pagina 43
... surface of rupture was scaly , like pewter . In the seventh and final case , an axle submitted to 128,304,000 torsions presented a surface of rupture like that in the preceding experiment ; the crystals were found to be perfectly well ...
... surface of rupture was scaly , like pewter . In the seventh and final case , an axle submitted to 128,304,000 torsions presented a surface of rupture like that in the preceding experiment ; the crystals were found to be perfectly well ...
Pagina 46
... surface , at any of the regularly - established coppersmiths . These can be had of the size of several feet down to a few inches . The surface of the plate being bright and free from tarnish , remove all grease with great care by ...
... surface , at any of the regularly - established coppersmiths . These can be had of the size of several feet down to a few inches . The surface of the plate being bright and free from tarnish , remove all grease with great care by ...
Pagina 48
... surface of the plate may be cleared of the etching - ground . There are other operations , such as re - biting , re ... surfaces for the relief of foliage , figures , letters , etc. , may , by this means , be executed with rapidity ...
... surface of the plate may be cleared of the etching - ground . There are other operations , such as re - biting , re ... surfaces for the relief of foliage , figures , letters , etc. , may , by this means , be executed with rapidity ...
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Pagina 413 - Book of Facts in Science and Art, exhibiting the most important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology, Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Antiquities, etc.
Pagina 413 - The Camel : His Organization, Habits and Uses, considered with reference to his introduction into the United States.
Pagina v - I first entered this city, the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping machines, and, with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drills, the preparatory operations of construction were effected entirely by the hands of the workmen.
Pagina 146 - The result of this would be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe were finite and left to obey existing laws. But as no limit is known to the extent of matter, science points rather to an endless progress through an endless space of action, involving the transformation of potential energy through palpable motion into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock and stopping forever.
Pagina viii - THE BOYDEN PREMIUM URIAH A. BOYDEN, ESQ., of Boston, Mass., has deposited with THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE the sum of one thousand dollars, to be awarded as a premium to "Any resident of North America who shall determine by experiment whether all rays of light,* and other physical rays, are or are not transmitted with the same velocity.
Pagina 62 - ... the glasses are taken off and wiped every day, and before they are put on again, the match is applied to the lip of the burner, and the stopcock cautiously opened, so that no more gas escapes than is sufficient to make a ring of blue flame, the glasses being then put on quite straight, the stopcocks are gently turned, until the flames stand at three inches high. When this is done, few chimney-glasses will be broken, and the ceilings will not be blackened for years.
Pagina 197 - Energia. It may be looked upon as the probable primary source of the force appearing in the phenomena of vitality. To the gradual manner in which colloidal changes take place (for they always demand time as an element), may the...
Pagina 411 - POLITICAL ECONOMY ABRIDGED, and adapted to the use of Schools and Academies, by the Author.
Pagina 412 - HEADSHIP OF CHRIST, and the Rights of the Christian People, a Collection of Personal Portraitures, Historical and Descriptive Sketches and Essays, with the Author's celebrated Letter to Lord Brougham.
Pagina 197 - Another eminently characteristic quality of colloids, is their mutability. Their existence is a continued metastasis. A colloid may be compared in this respect to water while existing liquid at a temperature below its usual freezing point, or to a supersaturated saline solution.