Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1871 |
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Pagina 49
... tubes from the South Ferry , under Broadway , the entire length of the island , with a branch at Union Square , under Fourth Avenue , to Harlem River . Such a road would have capacity for carrying 40,000 passengers per hour . ROTARY ...
... tubes from the South Ferry , under Broadway , the entire length of the island , with a branch at Union Square , under Fourth Avenue , to Harlem River . Such a road would have capacity for carrying 40,000 passengers per hour . ROTARY ...
Pagina 50
... tube about 8 feet diameter over all . The old tun- nel was worked by a shield weighing 120 tons , accommodating 36 workmen ; the new tunnel has been driven by a shield weigh- ing 2 tons , and accommodating at most 3 workmen at a time ...
... tube about 8 feet diameter over all . The old tun- nel was worked by a shield weighing 120 tons , accommodating 36 workmen ; the new tunnel has been driven by a shield weigh- ing 2 tons , and accommodating at most 3 workmen at a time ...
Pagina 65
... tube ; long experience having proved that the rubber of which the tube is made cannot injure the most delicate wine . 3. There is no contact of the liquid with any oxidizable metal- lic surface , nor with greasy crated surfaces , such ...
... tube ; long experience having proved that the rubber of which the tube is made cannot injure the most delicate wine . 3. There is no contact of the liquid with any oxidizable metal- lic surface , nor with greasy crated surfaces , such ...
Pagina 66
... tube , as when a cask has been filled , it is only necessary to reverse the motion of the pump , and the excess of wine is returned to the reservoir . This manœuvre , so simple and so advantageous , is impossible with any other system ...
... tube , as when a cask has been filled , it is only necessary to reverse the motion of the pump , and the excess of wine is returned to the reservoir . This manœuvre , so simple and so advantageous , is impossible with any other system ...
Pagina 84
... compressed and passed through a tube , is utilized as a means of communicat- ing intelligence from one given point to another , effecting the same object as the electric telegraph . The principal portion 84 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY .
... compressed and passed through a tube , is utilized as a means of communicat- ing intelligence from one given point to another , effecting the same object as the electric telegraph . The principal portion 84 ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY .
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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.