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... kind .. What new fields for science ! What new opportunities for wealth and power ! What new openings for good ! " It is happily becoming every year less and less necessary to press these things on public notice . In an age of gas and ...
... kind .. What new fields for science ! What new opportunities for wealth and power ! What new openings for good ! " It is happily becoming every year less and less necessary to press these things on public notice . In an age of gas and ...
Pagina 9
... kind . But this ought not to be ; and it will not long be , I am confident . It must give way before the extended cultivation of science itself . The means of occupation , in connection with our schools , and our colleges , and our ...
... kind . But this ought not to be ; and it will not long be , I am confident . It must give way before the extended cultivation of science itself . The means of occupation , in connection with our schools , and our colleges , and our ...
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... kind of injury . Thus it is contemplated to devote the remainder of the present session to as complete an inquiry as the means at the disposal of the Committee may permit into the injury to the eyes which unfortunately attaches to many ...
... kind of injury . Thus it is contemplated to devote the remainder of the present session to as complete an inquiry as the means at the disposal of the Committee may permit into the injury to the eyes which unfortunately attaches to many ...
Pagina 31
... kind in steamboats . They lengthened their steamers at a very early period , and they now generally built upon this plan and with the hollow lines . They had done wonders in this way , and he believed in England wonders were also being ...
... kind in steamboats . They lengthened their steamers at a very early period , and they now generally built upon this plan and with the hollow lines . They had done wonders in this way , and he believed in England wonders were also being ...
Pagina 54
... which the water flowed past ; and there were modifications of it in portions of screws , drums with spiral vanes , and so forth . Mr. Siemens had a patent of this kind , in which two or three spirals 54 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY .
... which the water flowed past ; and there were modifications of it in portions of screws , drums with spiral vanes , and so forth . Mr. Siemens had a patent of this kind , in which two or three spirals 54 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY .
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Pagina 274 - ... consumed by a given weight of animal, within a given time, and the amount of increase obtained from a given weight of food. The results, which formed the subject of the present communication, afforded further illustration of some of the points brought forward in the former one ; but...
Pagina 377 - These astronomers are of opinion that this fluid ring is not of very recent formation, and that it is not subject to rapid change , and they have come to the extraordinary conclusion that the inner border of the ring has, since the time of Huygens, been gradually approaching the body of Saturn, and that we may expect, sooner or later, perhaps in some dozen of years, to see the rings united with the body of the planet.
Pagina 162 - A wire laid across from cither of the above-named places on this side will pass to the north of the Grand Banks, and rest on that beautiful plateau to which I have alluded, and where the waters of the sea appear to be as quiet and as completely at rest as it is at the bottom of a mill-pond.
Pagina 269 - It fully equalled the expectations of all ; so that solidified milk will hereafter rank among the necessary appendages to the sick room. In fine, this article makes paps, custards, puddings, and cakes, equal to the best milk ; and one may be sure it is an unadulterated article, obtained from well-pastured cattle, and not the produce of distillery slops ; neither can it be watered. For our steamships, our packets, for those travelling by land or by sea, for hotel purposes, or use in private families,...