Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1871 |
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Pagina iv
... feet below the natural surface . The Broadway Underground Railway is well underway ; the construction progressing while the thoroughfare above is crowded with its endless procession of vehicles . The St. Louis bridge , under the able ...
... feet below the natural surface . The Broadway Underground Railway is well underway ; the construction progressing while the thoroughfare above is crowded with its endless procession of vehicles . The St. Louis bridge , under the able ...
Pagina vi
... feet , a length of 35 miles through rocks of porphyry and basalt , and with but middling ports of entry ; second , from the Gulf of Darien through the rivers Atrato , Caiarica , Paya , and Tuyra , to the Gulf of San Miguel , with an ...
... feet , a length of 35 miles through rocks of porphyry and basalt , and with but middling ports of entry ; second , from the Gulf of Darien through the rivers Atrato , Caiarica , Paya , and Tuyra , to the Gulf of San Miguel , with an ...
Pagina 33
... feet , the piston rods both laying hold of the same crosshead , which was connected with an overhead beam . The experiment consisted in shutting the steam off from the inner cylinder and driving with the outer annular piston alone . It ...
... feet , the piston rods both laying hold of the same crosshead , which was connected with an overhead beam . The experiment consisted in shutting the steam off from the inner cylinder and driving with the outer annular piston alone . It ...
Pagina 36
... feet radius . The railway world has heard of Mr. Fairlie's " Little Wonder " at work upon the Festiniog Railway , and of the triumphs of the " Progress " on the Brecon and Mertly Railway . The Tara- paca " may properly be designated the ...
... feet radius . The railway world has heard of Mr. Fairlie's " Little Wonder " at work upon the Festiniog Railway , and of the triumphs of the " Progress " on the Brecon and Mertly Railway . The Tara- paca " may properly be designated the ...
Pagina 37
... feet , we cannot doubt that the adoption of his inventions would revolutionize railway working , and make the difference , as regards railway property , that there is between wasted money and lucrative investments . Ere long , notwith ...
... feet , we cannot doubt that the adoption of his inventions would revolutionize railway working , and make the difference , as regards railway property , that there is between wasted money and lucrative investments . Ere long , notwith ...
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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.