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 ix
... feet in span , nor cast - iron bridges two hundred and fifty feet , we can estimate the progress which has been made in crossing rivers four or five hundred feet in width , with- out any support at the middle of the stream . Even spans ...
... feet in span , nor cast - iron bridges two hundred and fifty feet , we can estimate the progress which has been made in crossing rivers four or five hundred feet in width , with- out any support at the middle of the stream . Even spans ...
Pagina xv
... feet on an average ) , they are described by most observers as dwarf negroes ; but have none of the distinctive characteristics of the African race . They have no tradi- tion , and apparently no notion of their origin ; are reported to ...
... feet on an average ) , they are described by most observers as dwarf negroes ; but have none of the distinctive characteristics of the African race . They have no tradi- tion , and apparently no notion of their origin ; are reported to ...
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... feet from east to west , and 692 feet 6 inches from north to south : the measures , however , being exclusive of a wing devoted to machinery , the area of which is 872 feet by 200 feet , going directly north and south , at a right angle ...
... feet from east to west , and 692 feet 6 inches from north to south : the measures , however , being exclusive of a wing devoted to machinery , the area of which is 872 feet by 200 feet , going directly north and south , at a right angle ...
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... feet in diameter at its base . When it is remembered that the dome of St. Paul's is but 108 in diameter and St ... feet long ; down the middle runs a dividing wall , doubling the hanging space , forming two galle- ries parallel to each ...
... feet in diameter at its base . When it is remembered that the dome of St. Paul's is but 108 in diameter and St ... feet long ; down the middle runs a dividing wall , doubling the hanging space , forming two galle- ries parallel to each ...
Pagina 21
... feet ; nearly 200,000 feet more than its predecessor , without counting nearly 300,000 feet more that will be gained by the appro- priation of the wing building to machinery . One hundred and sixty feet was the greatest height of 1851 ...
... feet ; nearly 200,000 feet more than its predecessor , without counting nearly 300,000 feet more that will be gained by the appro- priation of the wing building to machinery . One hundred and sixty feet was the greatest height of 1851 ...
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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.