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 xi
... passing eastwards , return to Hindustan by the gorges of the Brahmaputra River . An English commission is now engaged , in coöperation with a commission appointed by the French Government , for the purpose of connecting the ...
... passing eastwards , return to Hindustan by the gorges of the Brahmaputra River . An English commission is now engaged , in coöperation with a commission appointed by the French Government , for the purpose of connecting the ...
Pagina 24
... passed by that scene ; and I believe I should be correct in saying that even since the locomotive began to display its powers in practice , - since the railway system was estab- lished , those powers have been far more than doubled ...
... passed by that scene ; and I believe I should be correct in saying that even since the locomotive began to display its powers in practice , - since the railway system was estab- lished , those powers have been far more than doubled ...
Pagina 47
... passed through by the etch- ing - needle , that part is liable to be eaten into a line by the application of acid ; on no other portion , however , should the acid work . It being necessary to cover the etching with an even depth of ...
... passed through by the etch- ing - needle , that part is liable to be eaten into a line by the application of acid ; on no other portion , however , should the acid work . It being necessary to cover the etching with an even depth of ...
Pagina 48
... passed with it between two rollers , subject- ing it to a pressure sufficiently powerful to sink the hard material of the paste into the metal , thus forming the engraving . The metal plates which may be most conveniently impressed by ...
... passed with it between two rollers , subject- ing it to a pressure sufficiently powerful to sink the hard material of the paste into the metal , thus forming the engraving . The metal plates which may be most conveniently impressed by ...
Pagina 49
... passed through the machine upon the usual plane , and after the plate has been passed through the machine several times the plane is removed , and the slab on which the drawing or photograph is exe- cuted is substituted for it . The ...
... passed through the machine upon the usual plane , and after the plate has been passed through the machine several times the plane is removed , and the slab on which the drawing or photograph is exe- cuted is substituted for it . The ...
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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.