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
... thousand feet , when the structure would be destroyed by its own weight . 66 Importance of Good Machinery . It is to the exactitude and ac- curacy of our machine - tools that our machinery of the present time owes its smoothness of ...
... thousand feet , when the structure would be destroyed by its own weight . 66 Importance of Good Machinery . It is to the exactitude and ac- curacy of our machine - tools that our machinery of the present time owes its smoothness of ...
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 ...
Pagina xii
... 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 . " The award is ...
... 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 . " The award is ...
Pagina xvi
... thousand men , lost of this number , from disease , in seven months , over thirteen thousand soldiers . Among the scientific publications of the past year especially worthy of note we may mention the following : Report of Maj . Alfred ...
... thousand men , lost of this number , from disease , in seven months , over thirteen thousand soldiers . Among the scientific publications of the past year especially worthy of note we may mention the following : Report of Maj . Alfred ...
Pagina 27
... thousand dollars would have been saved to the company last year alone . Where wood is very cheap , as in Canada and on some of the Southern rail- roads , of course it is preferable to use it ; but wherever it can be shown that coal is ...
... thousand dollars would have been saved to the company last year alone . Where wood is very cheap , as in Canada and on some of the Southern rail- roads , of course it is preferable to use it ; but wherever it can be shown that coal is ...
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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.