Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1871 |
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Pagina 95
... cloth , tarred at the ends , with safety - fuse , all water - proof . 30 or 40 of these are discharged at the same time , a gong being previously sounded to draw off the workmen . Huge logs , interlaced with iron bands , form " curtains ...
... cloth , tarred at the ends , with safety - fuse , all water - proof . 30 or 40 of these are discharged at the same time , a gong being previously sounded to draw off the workmen . Huge logs , interlaced with iron bands , form " curtains ...
Pagina 277
... Cloths dipped in a 2 per cent . solution of car- bolic acid were hung up over the bed and in different parts of the room . The same 2 per cent . solution was sprinkled over the bed- clothes and over the carpet and furniture . A basin of ...
... Cloths dipped in a 2 per cent . solution of car- bolic acid were hung up over the bed and in different parts of the room . The same 2 per cent . solution was sprinkled over the bed- clothes and over the carpet and furniture . A basin of ...
Pagina 293
... clothes , and fur moths , at periods which cannot be definitely fixed . Even within the last few years the asparagus beetle has become naturalized in New York and New Jersey , whence it will no doubt spread gradually westward through ...
... clothes , and fur moths , at periods which cannot be definitely fixed . Even within the last few years the asparagus beetle has become naturalized in New York and New Jersey , whence it will no doubt spread gradually westward through ...
Pagina 304
... cloth and paper , putty and paint , 15 inches passage - way being left in front of the shelves , and the only access being through a tight door at one end , fastened by a screw . 66 Travellers , who desire to collect a large number of ...
... cloth and paper , putty and paint , 15 inches passage - way being left in front of the shelves , and the only access being through a tight door at one end , fastened by a screw . 66 Travellers , who desire to collect a large number of ...
Pagina 320
... cloths and cottons ; and I venture to prophesy that the Turkistan people will rejoice in the arrival at the remote Yarkand of such British goods , for which they will gladly exchange the products of their own country or pay in specie ...
... cloths and cottons ; and I venture to prophesy that the Turkistan people will rejoice in the arrival at the remote Yarkand of such British goods , for which they will gladly exchange the products of their own country or pay in specie ...
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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.