Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1871 |
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Pagina x
... sides of the ocean , with assistance from the governments of Great Britain and the United States . The facts thus ... side deposits are forming , one containing the remains of arctic , and another the remains of temperate or even ...
... sides of the ocean , with assistance from the governments of Great Britain and the United States . The facts thus ... side deposits are forming , one containing the remains of arctic , and another the remains of temperate or even ...
Pagina xxi
... side of Gabon , which has contributed some precious 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 ...
... side of Gabon , which has contributed some precious 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 ...
Pagina 27
... side chambers reaches the fuel in the ordinary manner . Now , observe the difference : Here we have a long central fire - chamber open to the air only at one end . The air before entering the fire - cham- ber passes over the surface of ...
... side chambers reaches the fuel in the ordinary manner . Now , observe the difference : Here we have a long central fire - chamber open to the air only at one end . The air before entering the fire - cham- ber passes over the surface of ...
Pagina 31
... side to side , sloping from a short distance beneath the door and then turning down perpendicularly to the grate bars . Above is a fire - brick arch extending from the back well forward , around which the ascending flame must pass ...
... side to side , sloping from a short distance beneath the door and then turning down perpendicularly to the grate bars . Above is a fire - brick arch extending from the back well forward , around which the ascending flame must pass ...
Pagina 37
... side of the cab . In going in one direction one- half of the locomotive is going ahead and the other backing , and the latter goes ahead when the steam is reversed , and the other half backs . Thus the necessity of turn - tables is ...
... side of the cab . In going in one direction one- half of the locomotive is going ahead and the other backing , and the latter goes ahead when the steam is reversed , and the other half backs . Thus the necessity of turn - tables is ...
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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.