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... coal - gas . There is little doubt that in a few years these dis- coveries will enable Sheffield manufacturers to replace their present uncertain , cumbrous , and expensive process by a method at once sim- ple and inexpensive , and so ...
... coal - gas . There is little doubt that in a few years these dis- coveries will enable Sheffield manufacturers to replace their present uncertain , cumbrous , and expensive process by a method at once sim- ple and inexpensive , and so ...
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... coal fed into the furnaces was carefully weighed ; indicator cards were taken , and everything arranged to insure ... coal , and the other two with anthracite and Brookfield coal . The pressure in the boilers above the atmosphere was 195 ...
... coal fed into the furnaces was carefully weighed ; indicator cards were taken , and everything arranged to insure ... coal , and the other two with anthracite and Brookfield coal . The pressure in the boilers above the atmosphere was 195 ...
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... coal , as it regards economy . There are thirty - eight locomotives , six of which have been altered from wood to bituminous coal - burners ; twenty - four burn wood , and eight anthracite coal . - During the last two years and nine ...
... coal , as it regards economy . There are thirty - eight locomotives , six of which have been altered from wood to bituminous coal - burners ; twenty - four burn wood , and eight anthracite coal . - During the last two years and nine ...
Pagina 59
... coal , he said , as regards its filtering qualities , stands to coke as fif- teen to four , and all attempts at solidifying it by calcination with pitch , tar , etc. , have failed in practice , owing to the glazing effects of the ...
... coal , he said , as regards its filtering qualities , stands to coke as fif- teen to four , and all attempts at solidifying it by calcination with pitch , tar , etc. , have failed in practice , owing to the glazing effects of the ...
Pagina 63
... every eight minutes , and the ice of each one weighs about nine pounds . With an expense of five and a half pounds of coal burned , there are obtained fifty - five pounds of ice per hour , MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 63.
... every eight minutes , and the ice of each one weighs about nine pounds . With an expense of five and a half pounds of coal burned , there are obtained fifty - five pounds of ice per hour , MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 63.
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Pagina ix - 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 150 - 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 for ever. It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of...
Pagina 201 - The colloidal is, in fact, a dynamical state of matter; the crystalloidal being the statical condition. The colloid possesses Energia. It may be looked upon as the probable primary source of the force appearing in the phenomena of vitality.