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 vii
... four wheels , travels from village to village , in Great Britain , with its attendant , the thrashing - machine , performing the operations of thrashing , winnowing , and cleaning , at less than one half the cost by the old and tedious ...
... four wheels , travels from village to village , in Great Britain , with its attendant , the thrashing - machine , performing the operations of thrashing , winnowing , and cleaning , at less than one half the cost by the old and tedious ...
Pagina ix
... four or five hundred feet in width , with- out any support at the middle of the stream . Even spans greatly in excess of this may be bridged over with safety , provided we do not exceed eighteen hundred to two thousand feet , when the ...
... four or five hundred feet in width , with- out any support at the middle of the stream . Even spans greatly in excess of this may be bridged over with safety , provided we do not exceed eighteen hundred to two thousand feet , when the ...
Pagina 20
... four sections , divided by porches of differing dimensions . Reverting to the ground plan of the building , we may briefly point out that its general form is that of the letter L , the short limb being that intended for the reception of ...
... four sections , divided by porches of differing dimensions . Reverting to the ground plan of the building , we may briefly point out that its general form is that of the letter L , the short limb being that intended for the reception of ...
Pagina 27
... four burn wood , and eight anthracite coal . - During the last two years and nine months , the wood - burning en- gines have run 1,353,909 miles , the anthracite coal engines 165,585 , and the bituminous engines 112,757 miles ...
... four burn wood , and eight anthracite coal . - During the last two years and nine months , the wood - burning en- gines have run 1,353,909 miles , the anthracite coal engines 165,585 , and the bituminous engines 112,757 miles ...
Pagina 29
... four- teenth century , the defence was stronger than the attack , the bal- ance of power , in the absence of gunpowder , being in favor of the massiveness of the architecture . Thus , in Norman times , the de- fence relied mainly upon ...
... four- teenth century , the defence was stronger than the attack , the bal- ance of power , in the absence of gunpowder , being in favor of the massiveness of the architecture . Thus , in Norman times , the de- fence relied mainly upon ...
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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.