The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, Volume 13Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1862 |
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Pagina viii
... considerable time , resist the heaviest guns which can be brought to bear against it , and be practically shot - proof . But our present means are inadequate for the production of large masses of iron ; and we may trust that , with new ...
... considerable time , resist the heaviest guns which can be brought to bear against it , and be practically shot - proof . But our present means are inadequate for the production of large masses of iron ; and we may trust that , with new ...
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... considerable amount of the water is instantly flashed , gunpowder - like , into steam . -Scientific American . NOVEL ARRANGEMENT OF STEAM BOILERS . At the meeting of the Society of Civil Engineers of Vienna , Aus- tria , M. Strecker ...
... considerable amount of the water is instantly flashed , gunpowder - like , into steam . -Scientific American . NOVEL ARRANGEMENT OF STEAM BOILERS . At the meeting of the Society of Civil Engineers of Vienna , Aus- tria , M. Strecker ...
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... considerable attention has been of late paid in England , a bill has been introduced into Parliament for their regulation . It exacts that the weight on each pair of wheels is not to exceed one ton and a half . The use of locomotives de ...
... considerable attention has been of late paid in England , a bill has been introduced into Parliament for their regulation . It exacts that the weight on each pair of wheels is not to exceed one ton and a half . The use of locomotives de ...
Pagina 31
... considerable , that , if once trained to act in combination , their own power would be held in check . Their sovereign , therefore , relied entirely upon them for his army , with the exception of hired troops of Genoese or Brabançon ...
... considerable , that , if once trained to act in combination , their own power would be held in check . Their sovereign , therefore , relied entirely upon them for his army , with the exception of hired troops of Genoese or Brabançon ...
Pagina 34
... considerably rusted and reduced in strength . Aside from rusting , magnetic influ- ences were supposed to have been at work in destroying the strength of these irons . But it should be remarked , that none of these have been ...
... considerably rusted and reduced in strength . Aside from rusting , magnetic influ- ences were supposed to have been at work in destroying the strength of these irons . But it should be remarked , that none of these have been ...
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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.