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
... miles , a current of electricity that renders intelligible words and thoughts . - " In land telegraphy the chief difficulties have been surmounted , but in submarine telegraphy much remains to be accomplished . Fail- ures have been ...
... miles , a current of electricity that renders intelligible words and thoughts . - " In land telegraphy the chief difficulties have been surmounted , but in submarine telegraphy much remains to be accomplished . Fail- ures have been ...
Pagina x
that out of twelve thousand miles of submarine cable which have been laid since 1851 , only three thousand miles are actually in working or- der ; so that three - fourths may be considered a failure and loss to the country . The ...
that out of twelve thousand miles of submarine cable which have been laid since 1851 , only three thousand miles are actually in working or- der ; so that three - fourths may be considered a failure and loss to the country . The ...
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... miles an hour . And Mr. Ste- phenson was so wise in his generation , that he would not adhere to the speed of eight or ten miles . I do not recollect the figure to which they brought him down , but I think at last he would not ...
... miles an hour . And Mr. Ste- phenson was so wise in his generation , that he would not adhere to the speed of eight or ten miles . I do not recollect the figure to which they brought him down , but I think at last he would not ...
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... miles per cord ; three good anthracite coal engines average 31 miles to a ton of coal . Mr. Sterns states that if all the freight trains on the New Jersey Central Railroad had been drawn by good anthracite coal engines , twenty thousand ...
... miles per cord ; three good anthracite coal engines average 31 miles to a ton of coal . Mr. Sterns states that if all the freight trains on the New Jersey Central Railroad had been drawn by good anthracite coal engines , twenty thousand ...
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... miles an hour , and through towns , cities , or villages , five . No locomotive is to be used within the city of London more than seven feet in width and with wheels six inches wide . MILITARY ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES . The above ...
... miles an hour , and through towns , cities , or villages , five . No locomotive is to be used within the city of London more than seven feet in width and with wheels six inches wide . MILITARY ARCHITECTURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES . The above ...
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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.