Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1871 |
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Pagina iii
... American manufacturer would do well to read the report on steam - boiler legislation presented at the meeting of the British Association . Among the names of the committee who presented it we find those of Sir William Fairbairn and Sir ...
... American manufacturer would do well to read the report on steam - boiler legislation presented at the meeting of the British Association . Among the names of the committee who presented it we find those of Sir William Fairbairn and Sir ...
Pagina iv
... American weapons are held abroad it is stated that the Remington Co. , N. Y. , have ex- ported to Denmark 25,000 ... America for the government absolutely , and 50 additional on the understanding that they will be taken . Meanwhile , 50 ...
... American weapons are held abroad it is stated that the Remington Co. , N. Y. , have ex- ported to Denmark 25,000 ... America for the government absolutely , and 50 additional on the understanding that they will be taken . Meanwhile , 50 ...
Pagina vi
... America , and the islands of the Pacific Ocean . This year marks the completion of the Mount Cenis Tunnel . The use of artificial stone is on the increase . In many regions of our country , where stone and timber are scarce , the use of ...
... America , and the islands of the Pacific Ocean . This year marks the completion of the Mount Cenis Tunnel . The use of artificial stone is on the increase . In many regions of our country , where stone and timber are scarce , the use of ...
Pagina xv
... American expedition . After crossing the Atlantic Ocean , the shadow of the moon passed across the south of Portugal and the Straits of Gibraltar to Algeria , reaching its most southerly limits in about longitude 4 ° east of Greenwich ...
... American expedition . After crossing the Atlantic Ocean , the shadow of the moon passed across the south of Portugal and the Straits of Gibraltar to Algeria , reaching its most southerly limits in about longitude 4 ° east of Greenwich ...
Pagina xxi
... America the piercing of the Isthmus occupies public attention . Malte - Brun enumerates no less than 28 projects for a canal across the isthmus . To these different projects it is necessary to add those of M. du Puydt , and of Commander ...
... America the piercing of the Isthmus occupies public attention . Malte - Brun enumerates no less than 28 projects for a canal across the isthmus . To these different projects it is necessary to add those of M. du Puydt , and of Commander ...
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Pagina 184 - Report of the Commissioners appointed in 1868 to inquire into the best means of preventing the pollution of Rivers (Mersey and Ribble basins).
Pagina 177 - USA, read a paper on this subject, of which the following is an abstract : — " Cast iron — the raw material from which the malleable metal is made — may be formulated approximately as follows : — Silicon (Si), 5 to 3 per cent. Phosphorus (P), 05 to 2 per cent. Manganese (Mn) , 0 to 20 per cent. Sulphur (S), 25 to 2 per cent. Carbon (C), 2 to 5 per cent. Iron (Fe), 90 to 9G.5 per cent.
Pagina 263 - There can be no reason, then, for doubting that, among insects, contagious and infectious diseases, of great malignity, are caused by minute organisms which are produced from preexisting germs, or by Homogenesis ; and there is no reason, that I know of, for believing that what happens in insects may not take place in the highest animals. Indeed there is already strong evidence that some diseases of an extremely malignant and fatal character to which man is subject are as much the work of minute organisms...
Pagina 129 - on partially liquefying carbonic acid by pressure alone, and gradually raising at the same time the temperature to 88° Fahrenheit, the surface of demarcation between the liquid and the gas became fainter, lost its curvature, and at last disappeared. The space was then occupied by a homogeneous fluid, which exhibited, when the pressure was suddenly diminished or the temperature slightly lowered, a peculiar appearance of moving or flickering strisa throughout its entire mass.