The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, Volume 13Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1862 |
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... cloth- ing , utterly ignorant of agriculture , living in the most primitive and rudest form of habitations , their only care seems to be the supply of their daily food . They are not , however , cannibals . Their imple- ments are bows ...
... cloth- ing , utterly ignorant of agriculture , living in the most primitive and rudest form of habitations , their only care seems to be the supply of their daily food . They are not , however , cannibals . Their imple- ments are bows ...
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... , the cats , and other machines were covered with raw ox and horse hides , to prevent them from catching fire , as the besieged used their utmost endeavors to set them alight , sewing up , in cloths , 30 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY .
... , the cats , and other machines were covered with raw ox and horse hides , to prevent them from catching fire , as the besieged used their utmost endeavors to set them alight , sewing up , in cloths , 30 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY .
Pagina 31
set them alight , sewing up , in cloths , fire , sulphur , and flax , which they let down the walls by chains with the double purpose of blind- ing and suffocating the assailants as well as destroying their engines . When the walls were ...
set them alight , sewing up , in cloths , fire , sulphur , and flax , which they let down the walls by chains with the double purpose of blind- ing and suffocating the assailants as well as destroying their engines . When the walls were ...
Pagina 49
... cloth , or other suitable fibrous material , the fibrous sub- tance is impressed in the metal plate as well as the drawing or design , and when printed in the manner of copper - plate printing , the impres- sion of the fibre gives a ...
... cloth , or other suitable fibrous material , the fibrous sub- tance is impressed in the metal plate as well as the drawing or design , and when printed in the manner of copper - plate printing , the impres- sion of the fibre gives a ...
Pagina 53
... cloth , and the sulphuret of car- bon be drawn off by evaporation in a water - bath ; after which the remaining liquid may be diluted at will with benzine , by which means a transparent , but still yellowish liquid , will be obtained ...
... cloth , and the sulphuret of car- bon be drawn off by evaporation in a water - bath ; after which the remaining liquid may be diluted at will with benzine , by which means a transparent , but still yellowish liquid , will be obtained ...
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Pagina ix - I first entered this city, the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping machines, and, with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drills, the preparatory operations of construction were effected entirely by the hands of the workmen.
Pagina 150 - The result of this would be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe were finite and left to obey existing laws. But as no limit is known to the extent of matter, science points rather to an endless progress through an endless space of action, involving the transformation of potential energy through palpable motion into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock and stopping forever.
Pagina xii - THE BOYDEN PREMIUM URIAH A. BOYDEN, ESQ., of Boston, Mass., has deposited with THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE the sum of one thousand dollars, to be awarded as a premium to "Any resident of North America who shall determine by experiment whether all rays of light,* and other physical rays, are or are not transmitted with the same velocity.
Pagina 201 - The colloidal is, in fact, a dynamical state of matter; the crystalloidal being the statical condition. The colloid possesses Energia. It may be looked upon as the probable primary source of the force appearing in the phenomena of vitality.