Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1871 |
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Pagina x
... carrying on chemical examinations of the air and rain in various localities , and collect- ing statistics looking towards ... carried on along the Atlantic coast on both sides of the ocean , with assistance from the governments of Great ...
... carrying on chemical examinations of the air and rain in various localities , and collect- ing statistics looking towards ... carried on along the Atlantic coast on both sides of the ocean , with assistance from the governments of Great ...
Pagina xv
... carry southward a system of zone observations to some declination beyond Gilliss ' northern limit , thus rendering comparisons easy with both these other labors , and permitting the easy determination of the corrections need- ful for ...
... carry southward a system of zone observations to some declination beyond Gilliss ' northern limit , thus rendering comparisons easy with both these other labors , and permitting the easy determination of the corrections need- ful for ...
Pagina 30
... carried out in just the same way . " The waste is really greater in the Central Works than it should be in the North , as the hammered iron does not leave such a raw edge as the puddled . " A fact that proves the superior manufacture of ...
... carried out in just the same way . " The waste is really greater in the Central Works than it should be in the North , as the hammered iron does not leave such a raw edge as the puddled . " A fact that proves the superior manufacture of ...
Pagina 36
... carry 3 tons of paying weight . The best form of wagon on a 4 feet 84 - inch gauge weighs from 3 to 5 tons , and carries from 5 to 10 tons , or about 1.90 ton per ton of wagon . The average load carried by merchandise wagons , exclusive ...
... carry 3 tons of paying weight . The best form of wagon on a 4 feet 84 - inch gauge weighs from 3 to 5 tons , and carries from 5 to 10 tons , or about 1.90 ton per ton of wagon . The average load carried by merchandise wagons , exclusive ...
Pagina 37
Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. The average load carried by merchandise wagons , exclusive of coal , is about 10 cwt . paying weight . The load these wagons ought to carry should be from 5 to 7 tons ; of paying load they really ...
Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. The average load carried by merchandise wagons , exclusive of coal , is about 10 cwt . paying weight . The load these wagons ought to carry should be from 5 to 7 tons ; of paying load they really ...
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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.