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Pagina 16
... side , the central drain is 3.60 metres in breadth , with a depth of 1.35 ; so large , in fact , that a well sized ... sides of the river the banks are very little above high - water mark , while the average level of the ground im ...
... side , the central drain is 3.60 metres in breadth , with a depth of 1.35 ; so large , in fact , that a well sized ... sides of the river the banks are very little above high - water mark , while the average level of the ground im ...
Pagina 17
... side of the river . These completely divide underground London , from west to east , and cutting all existing sewers at right angles intercept their flow to the Thames , and carry every gallon of London sewage under certain conditions ...
... side of the river . These completely divide underground London , from west to east , and cutting all existing sewers at right angles intercept their flow to the Thames , and carry every gallon of London sewage under certain conditions ...
Pagina 18
... side has been formed . This reservoir is a mile and a half long by one hundred feet wide , and twenty - one feet deep . It is made of this great length in proportion to width to allow of its being roofed with brick arches , which are ...
... side has been formed . This reservoir is a mile and a half long by one hundred feet wide , and twenty - one feet deep . It is made of this great length in proportion to width to allow of its being roofed with brick arches , which are ...
Pagina 19
... side of the river , will be fifty miles , and before all the works are completed 800,000 cubic yards of concrete will be consumed , upwards of 300,000,000 of bricks , and 4,000,000 cubic yards of earthwork . " During the past year , a ...
... side of the river , will be fifty miles , and before all the works are completed 800,000 cubic yards of concrete will be consumed , upwards of 300,000,000 of bricks , and 4,000,000 cubic yards of earthwork . " During the past year , a ...
Pagina 20
... side . He claimed the introduction into the navy of the air - tight compartments , by constructing a vessel upon the plan of a ship within a ship — the outer , sectional compartments each independ- ent per se for coals or stores ; the ...
... side . He claimed the introduction into the navy of the air - tight compartments , by constructing a vessel upon the plan of a ship within a ship — the outer , sectional compartments each independ- ent per se for coals or stores ; the ...
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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.