The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, Količina 6Werner Company, 1907 |
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Stran 14
... called the minute - wheel , but is better called the hour - wheel as it turns in an hour , drives another wheel N , of the same number of teeth , which has a pinion attached to it ; and that pinion drives the twelve - hour wheel H ...
... called the minute - wheel , but is better called the hour - wheel as it turns in an hour , drives another wheel N , of the same number of teeth , which has a pinion attached to it ; and that pinion drives the twelve - hour wheel H ...
Stran 15
... called , because they describe a cone in revolving . Such pendulums are used where a continuous instead of an intermittent motion of the clock train is required , as in the clocks for keeping an equatorial telescope directed to a star ...
... called , because they describe a cone in revolving . Such pendulums are used where a continuous instead of an intermittent motion of the clock train is required , as in the clocks for keeping an equatorial telescope directed to a star ...
Stran 17
... called the " scape - wheel . " Fig . 3 shows the form of the earliest clock escapement , if it is held sideways , so that the arms on which the two balls are set may vibrate on a horizontal plane . In that case the arms and weights form ...
... called the " scape - wheel . " Fig . 3 shows the form of the earliest clock escapement , if it is held sideways , so that the arms on which the two balls are set may vibrate on a horizontal plane . In that case the arms and weights form ...
Stran 19
... called the pin - wheel escapement . Fig . 6 will sufficiently explain its action and con- struction . Its advantages are - that it does not require so much accuracy as the other ; if a pin gets broken it is easily replaced , whereas in ...
... called the pin - wheel escapement . Fig . 6 will sufficiently explain its action and con- struction . Its advantages are - that it does not require so much accuracy as the other ; if a pin gets broken it is easily replaced , whereas in ...
Stran 20
... called a gravity ing the detent one way and lifting it the other . escapement ; and inasmuch as all the remontoire clock escape- ments that are worth notice have been gravity escapements , we the impulse given to the pendulum in this ...
... called a gravity ing the detent one way and lifting it the other . escapement ; and inasmuch as all the remontoire clock escape- ments that are worth notice have been gravity escapements , we the impulse given to the pendulum in this ...
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Stran 287 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part payment...
Stran 262 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority, — 1. Uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or children, or injures his property; or, 2.
Stran 262 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen (or workmen and workmen) shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Stran 124 - With many parts of this preface, in the sense attributed to them and which the words undoubtedly seem to authorize, I never concurred; but on the contrary objected to them as erroneous in principle and as contradictory (in appearance at least) both to other parts of the same preface and to the author's own practice in the greater number of the poems themselves.
Stran 150 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord, shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Stran 262 - ... knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to deprive the inhabitants of that city, borough, town, place, or part, wholly or to a great extent of their supply...
Stran 125 - COLERIDGE (Sara). Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children, with some Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme. A New Edition.
Stran 125 - He who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Stran 198 - Act, 1908; (c) Cancel any Shares which, at the date of the passing of the Resolution, have not been taken or agreed to be taken by any person...
Stran 208 - The law is this : — that each of our leading conceptions, — each branch of our knowledge, — passes successively through three different theoretical conditions : the Theological, or fictitious ; the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.