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 xvii
... interesting districts of our country , by government expeditions and private enterprise , has correspondingly enlarged our knowledge of North American zoology , and especially of ornithology . In the Eastern and older States , too ...
... interesting districts of our country , by government expeditions and private enterprise , has correspondingly enlarged our knowledge of North American zoology , and especially of ornithology . In the Eastern and older States , too ...
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... interesting illustration , which we give in his own language : " I would recom- mend those who wish to measure practically the advancement in this department of mechanical science , to read the evidence which was given by the elder Mr ...
... interesting illustration , which we give in his own language : " I would recom- mend those who wish to measure practically the advancement in this department of mechanical science , to read the evidence which was given by the elder Mr ...
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... interesting to trace in the compass of a few pages the successive steps made by generations of men , through centuries of time , towards the protection of their possessions or the acquisition of new territory . Until the middle of the ...
... interesting to trace in the compass of a few pages the successive steps made by generations of men , through centuries of time , towards the protection of their possessions or the acquisition of new territory . Until the middle of the ...
Pagina 31
... interesting ac- count of the manner in which the great tubes were tested , and of his personal experience in connection with the experiment : On the 15th of December , preparations were completed for a final test of the strength of the ...
... interesting ac- count of the manner in which the great tubes were tested , and of his personal experience in connection with the experiment : On the 15th of December , preparations were completed for a final test of the strength of the ...
Pagina 32
... interesting experiment was resumed , and concluded during the day . In giving the result of the fearful ordeal to which the tubes were subjected , we will only note the deflection on a pair of the side tubes the others being similar ...
... interesting experiment was resumed , and concluded during the day . In giving the result of the fearful ordeal to which the tubes were subjected , we will only note the deflection on a pair of the side tubes the others being similar ...
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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.