Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1871 |
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Pagina iii
... occur in Great Britain every year , killing about 75 persons and injuring as many others . The committee are confirmed in their opinion that explosions are not accidental , that they are not mys- terious ; but that they arise from the ...
... occur in Great Britain every year , killing about 75 persons and injuring as many others . The committee are confirmed in their opinion that explosions are not accidental , that they are not mys- terious ; but that they arise from the ...
Pagina ix
... occurring in nature , or produced , in the laboratory . While , therefore , there is great fascination attending the pursuit of this branch of the science , there are still many interesting objects of research in mineral chemistry to be ...
... occurring in nature , or produced , in the laboratory . While , therefore , there is great fascination attending the pursuit of this branch of the science , there are still many interesting objects of research in mineral chemistry to be ...
Pagina xii
... occur . He criticises Professor Huxley's address before the British Association in " Nature , " vol . II . , pp . 410 , 431 , and 492 . In the hydrated chloride of aluminium we have a new antiseptic . At a meeting of the Boston Society ...
... occur . He criticises Professor Huxley's address before the British Association in " Nature , " vol . II . , pp . 410 , 431 , and 492 . In the hydrated chloride of aluminium we have a new antiseptic . At a meeting of the Boston Society ...
Pagina 25
... occurs in the working parts . There is no part of the appa- ratus exposed to any injurious action of fire except the upper sur- face of the bars , and these are effectually protected by the trough arrangement . Our experience shows that ...
... occurs in the working parts . There is no part of the appa- ratus exposed to any injurious action of fire except the upper sur- face of the bars , and these are effectually protected by the trough arrangement . Our experience shows that ...
Pagina 46
... occur , since the ways stopped at the low - water line , and the rear edge would fall at once into deep water . The above arrangement answered the purpose . On the 19th of March , 1870 , the launch took place ; in every respect a ...
... occur , since the ways stopped at the low - water line , and the rear edge would fall at once into deep water . The above arrangement answered the purpose . On the 19th of March , 1870 , the launch took place ; in every respect a ...
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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.