The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, Volume 13Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1862 |
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Pagina iv
... connected with high mechanical skill in the construction of instruments of precision . The telescope has enormously increased the catalogue of the fixed stars , or those ' land- marks of the universe , ' as Sir John Herschel terms them ...
... connected with high mechanical skill in the construction of instruments of precision . The telescope has enormously increased the catalogue of the fixed stars , or those ' land- marks of the universe , ' as Sir John Herschel terms them ...
Pagina x
... connected with the coiling and paying out of the cable , will no doubt yield to careful experiment , and the employment of proper instruments in its construction , and its final deposit on the bed of the ocean . " Irrespective of inland ...
... connected with the coiling and paying out of the cable , will no doubt yield to careful experiment , and the employment of proper instruments in its construction , and its final deposit on the bed of the ocean . " Irrespective of inland ...
Pagina xii
... connection of the French and Russian systems will be carried out by the officers of those countries . Uriah A. Boyden , Esq . , of Boston , Mass . , has deposited with the Franklin Institute , of Philadelphia , the sum of one thousand ...
... connection of the French and Russian systems will be carried out by the officers of those countries . Uriah A. Boyden , Esq . , of Boston , Mass . , has deposited with the Franklin Institute , of Philadelphia , the sum of one thousand ...
Pagina xiii
... connection with agriculture . When it is considered how much loss is annually caused in this country by the ravages of the Hessian fly , the army and cotton worms , the curculio , the grass- hopper , and numerous other species of ...
... connection with agriculture . When it is considered how much loss is annually caused in this country by the ravages of the Hessian fly , the army and cotton worms , the curculio , the grass- hopper , and numerous other species of ...
Pagina 25
... connected with the phenomena of boiler explosions , or we would not have so many no- tions and theories floating about respecting their causes . The most common theory of boiler explosions is that of accumulated over - pres- sure of ...
... connected with the phenomena of boiler explosions , or we would not have so many no- tions and theories floating about respecting their causes . The most common theory of boiler explosions is that of accumulated over - pres- sure of ...
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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.