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Pagina 13
... miles across the bed of the Atlantic Ocean , to Heart's Content , Newfoundland , electrically uniting Europe and America . This is not only a marked epoch in the progress of science , and a triumph over physical obstacles deemed ...
... miles across the bed of the Atlantic Ocean , to Heart's Content , Newfoundland , electrically uniting Europe and America . This is not only a marked epoch in the progress of science , and a triumph over physical obstacles deemed ...
Pagina 14
... miles of wilderness , and after two attempts in 1855 and 1856 , a cable , pro- cured in England , was laid across the Gulf of St. Lawrence . Yet we never asked for help outside our own little circle . In- deed , I fear we should not ...
... miles of wilderness , and after two attempts in 1855 and 1856 , a cable , pro- cured in England , was laid across the Gulf of St. Lawrence . Yet we never asked for help outside our own little circle . In- deed , I fear we should not ...
Pagina 17
... miles of cable , and had only 600 miles further to go , when , hauling in the cable to remedy a fault , it parted and went to the bottom . That day I can never forget - how men paced the deck in despair , looking out on the broad sea ...
... miles of cable , and had only 600 miles further to go , when , hauling in the cable to remedy a fault , it parted and went to the bottom . That day I can never forget - how men paced the deck in despair , looking out on the broad sea ...
Pagina 18
... miles deep . But it is not so very difficult - when you know how . You may be sure we did not go a - fishing at random , nor was our success mere luck ; it was the triumph of the highest nautical and engineer- ing skill . We had four ...
... miles deep . But it is not so very difficult - when you know how . You may be sure we did not go a - fishing at random , nor was our success mere luck ; it was the triumph of the highest nautical and engineer- ing skill . We had four ...
Pagina 19
... miles apart . They were numbered , and each had a flag - staff on it , so that it could be seen by day ; and a lantern by night . Thus having taken our bearings , we stood off three or four miles , so as to come broadside on , and then ...
... miles apart . They were numbered , and each had a flag - staff on it , so that it could be seen by day ; and a lantern by night . Thus having taken our bearings , we stood off three or four miles , so as to come broadside on , and then ...
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Pagina 261 - a special mineralization producing a bituminous matter instead of coal or lignite. This operation is not attributable to heat, nor of the nature of a distillation, but is due to chemical reactions at the ordinary temperature, and under the normal conditions of climate.
Pagina 303 - When the ether spray thus produced is directed upon the outer skin, the skin is rendered insensible within a minute; but the effects do not end here. So soon as the skin is divided, the ether begins to exert on the nervous filaments the double action of cold and of etherization : so that the narcotism can be extended deeply to any desired extent. Pure rectified ether used in this manner is entirely negative ; it causes no irritation, and may be applied to a deep wound, as I shall show, without any...