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
... hundred and fifty 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 ...
... hundred and fifty 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 ...
Pagina xvi
... hundred thousand men , unaccustomed to the life of a soldier , drawn from city , farm , and fac- tory , and brought into the field with scarcely an idea on their part of the insalubrious influences which are the invariable ...
... hundred thousand men , unaccustomed to the life of a soldier , drawn from city , farm , and fac- tory , and brought into the field with scarcely an idea on their part of the insalubrious influences which are the invariable ...
Pagina xvii
... hundred plates , from original drawings , representing one hundred and forty- eight new and unfigured North American birds . A work of this de- scription has been long admitted to be a great desideratum , on account of the numerous ...
... hundred plates , from original drawings , representing one hundred and forty- eight new and unfigured North American birds . A work of this de- scription has been long admitted to be a great desideratum , on account of the numerous ...
Pagina 21
... hundred and sixty feet was the greatest height of 1851 , the nave being sixty feet high by seventy - two feet wide . The forthcoming building will be 260 feet at its greatest height , that of the domes ; the nave , 1,200 feet long , 85 ...
... hundred and sixty feet was the greatest height of 1851 , the nave being sixty feet high by seventy - two feet wide . The forthcoming building will be 260 feet at its greatest height , that of the domes ; the nave , 1,200 feet long , 85 ...
Pagina 22
... hundred ribs as the result of a day's work . The machine which shapes and planes beams , with a convex surface on one side and a concave on the other , exactly corresponding to curves which had been previously deter- mined , and ...
... hundred ribs as the result of a day's work . The machine which shapes and planes beams , with a convex surface on one side and a concave on the other , exactly corresponding to curves which had been previously deter- mined , and ...
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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.