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Pagina 7
... steam - of steam- engines and steamboats — of railroads and telegraphs , and photographs —the importance of science is no longer questioned . It is a truism- a commonplace . We are far from the foundation days of the Royal Society ...
... steam - of steam- engines and steamboats — of railroads and telegraphs , and photographs —the importance of science is no longer questioned . It is a truism- a commonplace . We are far from the foundation days of the Royal Society ...
Pagina 12
... steam - engines , & c . Also , contributions of the asylums for the blind , the deaf and dumb , and idiots , and specimens of workmanship executed by pupils of the Ragged Schools . The East India Company exhibited a very interesting ...
... steam - engines , & c . Also , contributions of the asylums for the blind , the deaf and dumb , and idiots , and specimens of workmanship executed by pupils of the Ragged Schools . The East India Company exhibited a very interesting ...
Pagina 28
... steam being applied , the water - wheel revolves with velocity , and the water is discharged by the nozzles on each side of the vessel . These form the only propelling power , and the invention is remarkable for its simplicity and ...
... steam being applied , the water - wheel revolves with velocity , and the water is discharged by the nozzles on each side of the vessel . These form the only propelling power , and the invention is remarkable for its simplicity and ...
Pagina 29
... steam may be supposed to be finally expanded in about that ratio , and the effect of each pair is theoretically equal to that of a single cylinder of 76 inches diameter , in which the steam is cut off at two - fifths of the stroke and ...
... steam may be supposed to be finally expanded in about that ratio , and the effect of each pair is theoretically equal to that of a single cylinder of 76 inches diameter , in which the steam is cut off at two - fifths of the stroke and ...
Pagina 30
... steam or by sails , without resisting their progress , and heaping a mound of water before the bows , as in the case of the old bluff , round - built vessels . It seemed now to be universally admitted , in Europe and in America , that ...
... steam or by sails , without resisting their progress , and heaping a mound of water before the bows , as in the case of the old bluff , round - built vessels . It seemed now to be universally admitted , in Europe and in America , that ...
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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,...