The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, Volume 13Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1862 |
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... positions , as designed in the finished boat . The second is the combination - saw , for all kinds and dimensions of stuff , either square , bevelling , or an- gling , that can be sawed with a circular saw , and to any desired width or ...
... positions , as designed in the finished boat . The second is the combination - saw , for all kinds and dimensions of stuff , either square , bevelling , or an- gling , that can be sawed with a circular saw , and to any desired width or ...
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... position by erecting galleries whence they could command the bases of the curtain walls and exterior towers , which they would otherwise only have been enabled to protect so far as they were flanked by towers ; and , as the operations ...
... position by erecting galleries whence they could command the bases of the curtain walls and exterior towers , which they would otherwise only have been enabled to protect so far as they were flanked by towers ; and , as the operations ...
Pagina 38
26,000 lbs . , the bar being suspended in a vertical position , left free all around . A stout mill - hand , armed with a billet of one and a half inches in diameter and two feet long , then struck the sample horizon- tally a number of ...
26,000 lbs . , the bar being suspended in a vertical position , left free all around . A stout mill - hand , armed with a billet of one and a half inches in diameter and two feet long , then struck the sample horizon- tally a number of ...
Pagina 62
... position that the bit shall act properly upon his mouth . Inside of each blinker he places a sort of leather fan , called a lunette d'arrêt , which opens or shuts at pleasure by means of a safety rein . When developed , it only ...
... position that the bit shall act properly upon his mouth . Inside of each blinker he places a sort of leather fan , called a lunette d'arrêt , which opens or shuts at pleasure by means of a safety rein . When developed , it only ...
Pagina 79
... position to a steam - frigate , with her heavy masts and yards , might make a difference of several knots an hour , besides much impeding the quickness of her movements . I have hitherto spoken of the " iron - protected , shot - proof ...
... position to a steam - frigate , with her heavy masts and yards , might make a difference of several knots an hour , besides much impeding the quickness of her movements . I have hitherto spoken of the " iron - protected , shot - proof ...
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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.