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Pagina 6
... wire , and its declination on a single bisection . This being the case , astronomers have begun to feel the necessity of using the catalogue places of stars provisionally , in reducing their observations , and of obtaining afterwards ...
... wire , and its declination on a single bisection . This being the case , astronomers have begun to feel the necessity of using the catalogue places of stars provisionally , in reducing their observations , and of obtaining afterwards ...
Pagina 36
... wire cage , for the sake of protection from blows . To graduate this apparatus , I let it down in a known depth of water , say ten fathoms , and having observed the point to which the ring in the glass tube is pushed , and having marked ...
... wire cage , for the sake of protection from blows . To graduate this apparatus , I let it down in a known depth of water , say ten fathoms , and having observed the point to which the ring in the glass tube is pushed , and having marked ...
Pagina 40
... wire , which passes under the cars , and is joined to bells which can be set ringing whenever the attention of the brakemen or conductors is required . The great merit of this in- vention lies in its simplicity and rapidity of action ...
... wire , which passes under the cars , and is joined to bells which can be set ringing whenever the attention of the brakemen or conductors is required . The great merit of this in- vention lies in its simplicity and rapidity of action ...
Pagina 51
... wire is suspended from the upper end of each extremity , and passing towards the lower margin , near the centre , the cable and tube being well supported by truss braces , which effect the double purpose of bringing the weight of the ...
... wire is suspended from the upper end of each extremity , and passing towards the lower margin , near the centre , the cable and tube being well supported by truss braces , which effect the double purpose of bringing the weight of the ...
Pagina 55
... wire gauge or sieve was introduced between the supply pipe and two inlet passages situated in the bottom of a cylindrical vessel . These passages opened into two vulcanized India rubber bags , which were bedded and laid flat on the ...
... wire gauge or sieve was introduced between the supply pipe and two inlet passages situated in the bottom of a cylindrical vessel . These passages opened into two vulcanized India rubber bags , which were bedded and laid flat on the ...
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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,...