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Pagina ix
... miles , a current of electricity that renders intelligible words and thoughts . 66 " In land telegraphy the chief difficulties have been surmounted , but in submarine telegraphy much remains to be accomplished . Fail- ures have been ...
... miles , a current of electricity that renders intelligible words and thoughts . 66 " In land telegraphy the chief difficulties have been surmounted , but in submarine telegraphy much remains to be accomplished . Fail- ures have been ...
Pagina ix
... miles , a current of electricity that renders intelligible words and thoughts . ― " In land telegraphy the chief difficulties have been surmounted , but in submarine telegraphy much remains to be accomplished . Fail- ures have been ...
... miles , a current of electricity that renders intelligible words and thoughts . ― " In land telegraphy the chief difficulties have been surmounted , but in submarine telegraphy much remains to be accomplished . Fail- ures have been ...
Pagina x
... miles of submarine cable which have been laid since 1851 , only three thousand miles are actually in working or- der ; so that three - fourths may be considered a failure and loss to the country . The insulators hitherto employed are ...
... miles of submarine cable which have been laid since 1851 , only three thousand miles are actually in working or- der ; so that three - fourths may be considered a failure and loss to the country . The insulators hitherto employed are ...
Pagina 24
... miles an hour . And Mr. Ste- phenson was so wise in his generation , that he would not adhere to the speed of eight or ten miles . I do not recollect the figure to which they brought him down , but I think at last he would not ...
... miles an hour . And Mr. Ste- phenson was so wise in his generation , that he would not adhere to the speed of eight or ten miles . I do not recollect the figure to which they brought him down , but I think at last he would not ...
Pagina 27
... miles . Regarding the perform- ance of these three classes of engines , Mr. Sterns says : " The three comparatively ... miles per cord ; three good anthracite coal engines average 31 miles to a ton of coal . Mr. Sterns states that if all ...
... miles . Regarding the perform- ance of these three classes of engines , Mr. Sterns says : " The three comparatively ... miles per cord ; three good anthracite coal engines average 31 miles to a ton of coal . Mr. Sterns states that if all ...
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Pagina 390 - CYCLOPEDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. A Selection of the choicest productions of English Authors, from the earliest to the present time. Connected by a Critical and Biographical History. Forming two large imperial octavo volumes of 700 pages each, double-column letter press ; with upwards of three hundred elegant Illustrations.
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 401 - ANALYTICAL CONCORDANCE TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURES ; or, the Bible presented under Distinct and Classified Heads or Topics. By JOHN EADIE, DD, LL D., Author of " Biblical Cyclopaedia," " Ecclesiastical Cyclopaedia," " Dictionary of the Bible,
Pagina 387 - Book of Facts in Science and Art, exhibiting the most important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology, Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Antiquities, etc.
Pagina 140 - It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life without a creating and overruling power. The author's object was to lay before the Section an application of these general views to the discovery of probable limits to the periods of time, past and future, during which the sun can bo reckoned on as a source of heat and light.
Pagina ix - THE BOYDEN PREMIUM URIAH A. BOYDEN, ESQ., of Boston, Mass., has deposited with THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE the sum of one thousand dollars, to be awarded as a premium to "Any resident of North America who shall determine by experiment whether all rays of light,* and other physical rays, are or are not transmitted with the same velocity.
Pagina 399 - GOTTHOLD'S EMBLEMS ; or, Invisible things understood by things that are made. BY CHRISTIAN SCRIVER, Minister of Magdeburg in 1671. Translated from the twenty-eighth German edition, by the Rev. ROBERT MHNZIES.
Pagina 179 - 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.
Pagina 397 - Perhaps no work has contributed so much as this to excite a fondness for the study of Natural Philosophy in youthful minds. The familiar comparisons, with which it abounds, awaken interest, and rivet the attention of the pupil.
Pagina 389 - THE LANDING AT CAPE ANNE; or, THE CHARTER OF THE FIRST PERMANENT COLONY ON THE TERRITORY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS COMPANY. Now discovered, and first published from the ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, with an inquiry into its authority, and a HISTORY OF THE COLONY, 1624-1628, Roger Conant, Governor. By J. WINGATE THORNTON. 8vo, cloth 2.50. Of " A rare contribution to the early history of New England.