Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1871 |
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Pagina iii
... material collected during the year , which is now embodied in the present volume , we find little that is new or startling in the province of the mechanic arts . Both in this country and in England attention is fixed upon more ...
... material collected during the year , which is now embodied in the present volume , we find little that is new or startling in the province of the mechanic arts . Both in this country and in England attention is fixed upon more ...
Pagina xxi
... materials for natural history . Gérard Rohlfs has visited the oasis of Cyrenaique . Wallace has published an article upon the Malay Archipelago ; Dr. Sempor upon New Guinea ; Professor Bastion upon Sin- gapore , Batavia , and Manilla ...
... materials for natural history . Gérard Rohlfs has visited the oasis of Cyrenaique . Wallace has published an article upon the Malay Archipelago ; Dr. Sempor upon New Guinea ; Professor Bastion upon Sin- gapore , Batavia , and Manilla ...
Pagina 38
... material which , in the case of ordinary manufacture , is most subject to unsoundness . The hole should be about an inch in diameter , and , with suitable mechanical ar- rangements , might be drilled at an average cost of about 1s . 6d ...
... material which , in the case of ordinary manufacture , is most subject to unsoundness . The hole should be about an inch in diameter , and , with suitable mechanical ar- rangements , might be drilled at an average cost of about 1s . 6d ...
Pagina 40
... material . It was he who , by his scientific employment of this material , educated the public — at least the American public - up to the full appreciation of its value . From his labors and experiments the principal data upon which ...
... material . It was he who , by his scientific employment of this material , educated the public — at least the American public - up to the full appreciation of its value . From his labors and experiments the principal data upon which ...
Pagina 42
... materials for a line 60 miles in length in Ceylon . It is intended to divide the proposed Ceylon line , of 60 miles , into 5 - mile sections , such as the one described , -1 engine work- ing every 2 sections , and the boxes passing each ...
... materials for a line 60 miles in length in Ceylon . It is intended to divide the proposed Ceylon line , of 60 miles , into 5 - mile sections , such as the one described , -1 engine work- ing every 2 sections , and the boxes passing each ...
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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.