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 vi
... temperature , into contact with common coal - gas . There is little doubt that in a few years these dis- coveries will enable Sheffield manufacturers to replace their present uncertain , cumbrous , and expensive process by a method at ...
... temperature , into contact with common coal - gas . There is little doubt that in a few years these dis- coveries will enable Sheffield manufacturers to replace their present uncertain , cumbrous , and expensive process by a method at ...
Pagina xv
... temperature of the flame in which the body is burned . Professor Frankland , in a letter to Dr. Tyndall , pub- lished in a late number of the London Philosophical Magazine , says : — “ I have just made some further experiments on the ...
... temperature of the flame in which the body is burned . Professor Frankland , in a letter to Dr. Tyndall , pub- lished in a late number of the London Philosophical Magazine , says : — “ I have just made some further experiments on the ...
Pagina xvi
... temperature of the flame rises high enough to fuse the plati- num , and thus puts an end to the experiment . " - If , therefore , the lines of the spectra vary with the temperature of the burning bodies , and if the temperature of the ...
... temperature of the flame rises high enough to fuse the plati- num , and thus puts an end to the experiment . " - If , therefore , the lines of the spectra vary with the temperature of the burning bodies , and if the temperature of the ...
Pagina 28
... temperature of 59 ° Fahrenheit was obtained on an excessively cold day , and at a merely nominal expense . LOCOMOTIVES ON COMMON ROADS . In anticipation of the adoption and use of locomotives on common roads , to the perfection of which ...
... temperature of 59 ° Fahrenheit was obtained on an excessively cold day , and at a merely nominal expense . LOCOMOTIVES ON COMMON ROADS . In anticipation of the adoption and use of locomotives on common roads , to the perfection of which ...
Pagina 37
... temperature . The tubular bridge at Mont- real will not last as long as one in Great Britain of the same dimen- sions , material , and workmanship , and rendering the same service ; and still less than the tubes over the Nile , in Egypt ...
... temperature . The tubular bridge at Mont- real will not last as long as one in Great Britain of the same dimen- sions , material , and workmanship , and rendering the same service ; and still less than the tubes over the Nile , in Egypt ...
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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.