Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1871 |
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... color were suffi- ciently delicate to determine this plane with accuracy . A writer in ،، Cosmos , " of July 30th , sums up the progress of geography for 1869-1870 . We give the following abstract : — Each year the space of unknown ...
... color were suffi- ciently delicate to determine this plane with accuracy . A writer in ،، Cosmos , " of July 30th , sums up the progress of geography for 1869-1870 . We give the following abstract : — Each year the space of unknown ...
Pagina 55
... iron and steel , patented recently in the United States , is as follows : Lay upon the surface of the plate of the metal to be enamelled a uniform ground , of any color required to produce MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 55.
... iron and steel , patented recently in the United States , is as follows : Lay upon the surface of the plate of the metal to be enamelled a uniform ground , of any color required to produce MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 55.
Pagina 56
... color , as well as of the kind described , and the subsequent coat of a lighter color ; as , for instance , the ground may be of blue and the inscription white , and a succession of colors may be given to produce a variously colored ...
... color , as well as of the kind described , and the subsequent coat of a lighter color ; as , for instance , the ground may be of blue and the inscription white , and a succession of colors may be given to produce a variously colored ...
Pagina 66
... color . In this state it forms the raw mate- rial for making plaster or cement of various qualities and capabil- ities . According to the purpose required , it is used in this state , or it is calcined and reground and mixed with ...
... color . In this state it forms the raw mate- rial for making plaster or cement of various qualities and capabil- ities . According to the purpose required , it is used in this state , or it is calcined and reground and mixed with ...
Pagina 68
... color of the cement . If brick color is de- sired , add enough Venetian red to the mixture to produce the color . If a very light color is desired , lime may be used with the cement and sand . Care must be taken to have all the ...
... color of the cement . If brick color is de- sired , add enough Venetian red to the mixture to produce the color . If a very light color is desired , lime may be used with the cement and sand . Care must be taken to have all the ...
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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.