Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1871 |
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Pagina x
... regard to the mode of deposition of calcareous and other sedimentary rock - strata , and in regard to the distribution of animal life , are of the highest importance . It seems that there is no limit to the depth at which animal life ...
... regard to the mode of deposition of calcareous and other sedimentary rock - strata , and in regard to the distribution of animal life , are of the highest importance . It seems that there is no limit to the depth at which animal life ...
Pagina xxi
... regard to Asia , attention is called to the works of M. Her- man de Schlagintweit upon India ; of M. Charles Lemire , upon Cochin China , and of M. Francis Garnier , upon the French ex- pedition to Mekong . In China , Cooper has pushed ...
... regard to Asia , attention is called to the works of M. Her- man de Schlagintweit upon India ; of M. Charles Lemire , upon Cochin China , and of M. Francis Garnier , upon the French ex- pedition to Mekong . In China , Cooper has pushed ...
Pagina 25
... regard to the economical results obtained , you will find some particulars given in our circular . As compared with the best hand - firing , where ordinary fuel is used , the results do not exceed 10 to 12 per cent . We find that the ...
... regard to the economical results obtained , you will find some particulars given in our circular . As compared with the best hand - firing , where ordinary fuel is used , the results do not exceed 10 to 12 per cent . We find that the ...
Pagina 31
... regard the system merely as a means of counteracting faults of construction which should not have any existence . As with the boiler so with the engines . Non - condensing engines having unjacketed cylinders , supplied with steam at ...
... regard the system merely as a means of counteracting faults of construction which should not have any existence . As with the boiler so with the engines . Non - condensing engines having unjacketed cylinders , supplied with steam at ...
Pagina 43
... regard to durability , it is well known that timber immerse d in salt water is imperishable , and to protect it against worms it is merely necessary to sink it beneath the river bed . It at once suggested itself to make the timber ...
... regard to durability , it is well known that timber immerse d in salt water is imperishable , and to protect it against worms it is merely necessary to sink it beneath the river bed . It at once suggested itself to make the timber ...
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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.