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Pagina 20
... pounds per lineal yard , their construction must have caused the ex- penditure of six and a half millions sterling . STEEP RAILWAY INCLINE . The Bhore Ghaut Incline of the Great Peninsular Railway of India has occupied more than seven ...
... pounds per lineal yard , their construction must have caused the ex- penditure of six and a half millions sterling . STEEP RAILWAY INCLINE . The Bhore Ghaut Incline of the Great Peninsular Railway of India has occupied more than seven ...
Pagina 21
... pounds , 1,470,000 cubic yards weigh 2,474,010,000 pounds , which is lifted in six hours . This is equivalent to lifting a weight of 412,335,000 foot pounds in one hour ; and since one - horse power is considered equivalent to rais- ing ...
... pounds , 1,470,000 cubic yards weigh 2,474,010,000 pounds , which is lifted in six hours . This is equivalent to lifting a weight of 412,335,000 foot pounds in one hour ; and since one - horse power is considered equivalent to rais- ing ...
Pagina 22
... pound ; the expense of the process was 2 cents , mak- ing the total cost of the iron in its present condition , 74 cents per pound . He stated that “ the inventor , who was for a number of years director of a large iron manufacturing ...
... pound ; the expense of the process was 2 cents , mak- ing the total cost of the iron in its present condition , 74 cents per pound . He stated that “ the inventor , who was for a number of years director of a large iron manufacturing ...
Pagina 31
... pounds , the hod - carrier is required to exert muscular effort to raise his own weight ( some one hundred and fifty pounds ) in addition , thus involving a waste of about three - fourths of the power expended . An invention to ...
... pounds , the hod - carrier is required to exert muscular effort to raise his own weight ( some one hundred and fifty pounds ) in addition , thus involving a waste of about three - fourths of the power expended . An invention to ...
Pagina 34
... pounds oxychloride of sodium , marking 13 ° on the areometer of Beaumé , is added . After twelve hours of maceration , the mucous membrane is easily detached , and the guts are free from any bad smell ; by this method , the process of ...
... pounds oxychloride of sodium , marking 13 ° on the areometer of Beaumé , is added . After twelve hours of maceration , the mucous membrane is easily detached , and the guts are free from any bad smell ; by this method , the process of ...
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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.