Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1871 |
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Pagina vi
... 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 extreme elevation of 186 feet , length ...
... 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 extreme elevation of 186 feet , length ...
Pagina x
... 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 can exist ; many genera and species , hereto- fore considered extinct ...
... 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 can exist ; many genera and species , hereto- fore considered extinct ...
Pagina 43
... rock at a depth of 96 feet below high water . The strata penetrated consisted in the first place of surface filling through alternate layers of hard pan and boulders of trap embedded in sand and clay . Below 50 and 60 feet depth the ...
... rock at a depth of 96 feet below high water . The strata penetrated consisted in the first place of surface filling through alternate layers of hard pan and boulders of trap embedded in sand and clay . Below 50 and 60 feet depth the ...
Pagina 47
... rock will shortly be reached . CONCRETE AND IRON BRIDGE . ― A new bridge erected for Sir Shafto Adair , from the designs of Mr. H. M. Eyton , of Ipswich , over the Waveney , at Homers- field , England , has been recently tested . In ...
... rock will shortly be reached . CONCRETE AND IRON BRIDGE . ― A new bridge erected for Sir Shafto Adair , from the designs of Mr. H. M. Eyton , of Ipswich , over the Waveney , at Homers- field , England , has been recently tested . In ...
Pagina 51
... resting upon cast - iron piers , formed of large pneumatic piles sunk to a bear- ing on solid rock . These piles are 8 feet outside diameter , with a thickness 1 inches , and weigh about 1 ton MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 51.
... resting upon cast - iron piers , formed of large pneumatic piles sunk to a bear- ing on solid rock . These piles are 8 feet outside diameter , with a thickness 1 inches , and weigh about 1 ton MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 51.
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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.