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Pagina iv
... given to the transmission of intelligence and the interchange of thought is one of the most remarkable features of the present age . Cheap and rapid postage to all parts of the world , - paper and printing reduced to the lowest cost ...
... given to the transmission of intelligence and the interchange of thought is one of the most remarkable features of the present age . Cheap and rapid postage to all parts of the world , - paper and printing reduced to the lowest cost ...
Pagina 15
... given to the various sewers has been fixed , as experience required , at from two to three square metres of wet surface for every 100 hectares . On this principle , twelve different sizes have been chosen , the smallest having a section ...
... given to the various sewers has been fixed , as experience required , at from two to three square metres of wet surface for every 100 hectares . On this principle , twelve different sizes have been chosen , the smallest having a section ...
Pagina 16
... given abundantly show how vastly superior the modern French construction is to the ancient Roman one . THE NEW SEWERS OF LONDON . It is well known to our readers ( See Annual Sci . Dis . , 1859-60 ) that for the last few years , there ...
... given abundantly show how vastly superior the modern French construction is to the ancient Roman one . THE NEW SEWERS OF LONDON . It is well known to our readers ( See Annual Sci . Dis . , 1859-60 ) that for the last few years , there ...
Pagina 27
... given to the surface . In forty - eight hours it becomes as hard as a rock ; not a drop of rain will go through it , and if a drop lodges on it , blame your- self for not having made the surface even ; but a moderate fall is suffi ...
... given to the surface . In forty - eight hours it becomes as hard as a rock ; not a drop of rain will go through it , and if a drop lodges on it , blame your- self for not having made the surface even ; but a moderate fall is suffi ...
Pagina 30
... given line ; or , to set a line to a given slope per metre ( or per yard ) . The instru- ment is so simple as scarcely to need description . The horizontal dis- tance between the feet or points of support is exactly one metre ( or yard ) ...
... given line ; or , to set a line to a given slope per metre ( or per yard ) . The instru- ment is so simple as scarcely to need description . The horizontal dis- tance between the feet or points of support is exactly one metre ( or yard ) ...
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Pagina 170 - It is conceivable that the various kinds of matter, now recognized as different elementary substances, may possess one and the same ultimate or atomic molecule existing in different conditions of movement. The essential unity of matter is an hypothesis in harmony with the equal action of gravity upon all bodies. We know the anxiety with which this point was investigated by Newton, and the care he took to ascertain that every kind of substance, ' metals, stones, woods, grain, salts, animal substances,'...
Pagina 256 - As with an invisible trowel, the mass is divided and subdivided into smaller and smaller portions, until it is reduced to an aggregation of granules not too large to build withal the finest fabrics of the nascent organism. And, then, it is as if a delicate finger traced out the line to be occupied by the spinal column, and moulded the contour of the body...
Pagina 306 - Thus, by means of repeated selection alone, the length of the ears has been doubled, their contents nearly trebled, and the " tillering" power of the seed increased five-fold.
Pagina 288 - The Negro exhibits permanently the imperfect brain, projecting lower jaw, and slender bent limbs of a Caucasian child some considerable time before the period of its birth. The aboriginal American represents the same child nearer birth. The Mongolian is an arrested infant newly born. And so forth.
Pagina 77 - The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that, in the contemplation of them, a certain force of character is requisite to preserve us from bewilderment.