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
... weight and expense . But more recent experience has proved this to be a mistake ; and already in most districts we find that it has been pressed into the service of the farm . The small locomotive , mounted on a frame with four wheels ...
... weight and expense . But more recent experience has proved this to be a mistake ; and already in most districts we find that it has been pressed into the service of the farm . The small locomotive , mounted on a frame with four wheels ...
Pagina viii
... weight of the new guns to about two - thirds the weight of the older cast - iron ordnance . Hence follows the facility with which guns of much greater power can be worked , whilst the range and precision of fire are at the same time ...
... weight of the new guns to about two - thirds the weight of the older cast - iron ordnance . Hence follows the facility with which guns of much greater power can be worked , whilst the range and precision of fire are at the same time ...
Pagina ix
... weight . " Importance of Good Machinery . — It is to the exactitude and ac- curacy of our machine - tools that our machinery of the present time owes its smoothness of motion and certainty of action . When I first entered Manchester ...
... weight . " Importance of Good Machinery . — It is to the exactitude and ac- curacy of our machine - tools that our machinery of the present time owes its smoothness of motion and certainty of action . When I first entered Manchester ...
Pagina x
... weight and liability to corrosion . Hemp has been substituted , but at present with no satisfactory result . All these difficulties , to- gether with those connected with the coiling and paying out of the cable , will no doubt yield to ...
... weight and liability to corrosion . Hemp has been substituted , but at present with no satisfactory result . All these difficulties , to- gether with those connected with the coiling and paying out of the cable , will no doubt yield to ...
Pagina xi
... Weights , Measures , and Coinage ; by M. Chevalier , of France . ” " On Public Prosecutors in Prussia ; by Baron Holtzendorff . " " Should the Ac- counts of Joint Stock Companies be Audited by a Public Officer ? by Mr. D. C. Heron ...
... Weights , Measures , and Coinage ; by M. Chevalier , of France . ” " On Public Prosecutors in Prussia ; by Baron Holtzendorff . " " Should the Ac- counts of Joint Stock Companies be Audited by a Public Officer ? by Mr. D. C. Heron ...
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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.