Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1871 |
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Pagina iv
... taken . Meanwhile , 50 more of these guns are being manufactured by Sir William Armstrong , at the Elswick ordnance works , in expectation that they also will be taken by the government . As it is understood to be the intention of the ...
... taken . Meanwhile , 50 more of these guns are being manufactured by Sir William Armstrong , at the Elswick ordnance works , in expectation that they also will be taken by the government . As it is understood to be the intention of the ...
Pagina vii
... taken of soldiers exercised in the manual of both in the infantry and the artillery service ; of the lading of sumpter mules , and , in short , of everything which can convey information to new recruits in the colonies . The ...
... taken of soldiers exercised in the manual of both in the infantry and the artillery service ; of the lading of sumpter mules , and , in short , of everything which can convey information to new recruits in the colonies . The ...
Pagina xv
... taken nearly every fair day during the past year . The primary objects in this work have been to prepare and perfect apparatus and processes which might be used with the best result during the coming transit of Venus , in 1874. A ...
... taken nearly every fair day during the past year . The primary objects in this work have been to prepare and perfect apparatus and processes which might be used with the best result during the coming transit of Venus , in 1874. A ...
Pagina xvi
... taken . Just before totality the clouds be- came much thicker , and we nearly gave up hope ; but at the needed time , almost by the direct interposition of Providence , as it would seem , a small rift in the now heavy clouds passed over ...
... taken . Just before totality the clouds be- came much thicker , and we nearly gave up hope ; but at the needed time , almost by the direct interposition of Providence , as it would seem , a small rift in the now heavy clouds passed over ...
Pagina xxii
... taken possession of the populous and flourishing city of Tashkent , a great mart of caravan commerce . Russia has also triumphed over the Khan of Bokhara . The appre- hension that these advances of Russia would prove prejudicial to ...
... taken possession of the populous and flourishing city of Tashkent , a great mart of caravan commerce . Russia has also triumphed over the Khan of Bokhara . The appre- hension that these advances of Russia would prove prejudicial to ...
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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.