Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art for ...1864 |
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... light dry - goods above that deck ( which was generally lost ) , and placing loose planks ( indeed , as we were in the habit of hatching many of our brigs of 386 tons and under ) as a temporary deck . Now , in the event of a dangerous ...
... light dry - goods above that deck ( which was generally lost ) , and placing loose planks ( indeed , as we were in the habit of hatching many of our brigs of 386 tons and under ) as a temporary deck . Now , in the event of a dangerous ...
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... LIGHT . - A highly successful and economical application of the oxy - hy- drogen lime light has recently been made by Dr. G. H. Smith , of Rochester , New York ; - atmospheric air being substituted in the place of oxygen gas , and ...
... LIGHT . - A highly successful and economical application of the oxy - hy- drogen lime light has recently been made by Dr. G. H. Smith , of Rochester , New York ; - atmospheric air being substituted in the place of oxygen gas , and ...
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... light . When placed in the focus of a parabolic reflector , such as are in present use upon locomotive engines , it is in- creased to a ball of light twenty inches in diameter , or to the size of the mirror . The flow of air and gas is ...
... light . When placed in the focus of a parabolic reflector , such as are in present use upon locomotive engines , it is in- creased to a ball of light twenty inches in diameter , or to the size of the mirror . The flow of air and gas is ...
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... light of the foregoing experiments , from 70 to 80 per cent . of the space appropriated to filling was occupied by water , and yet was exposed for a day and two nights to a temperature of zero without injury . On exposure to fire the ...
... light of the foregoing experiments , from 70 to 80 per cent . of the space appropriated to filling was occupied by water , and yet was exposed for a day and two nights to a temperature of zero without injury . On exposure to fire the ...
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... light and shade in endless variety . This organ contains 18 registers or stops , with which are drawn on or shut off an equal number of ranks or series of pipes , all of which , or any of them separately or in combination , may be made ...
... light and shade in endless variety . This organ contains 18 registers or stops , with which are drawn on or shut off an equal number of ranks or series of pipes , all of which , or any of them separately or in combination , may be made ...
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Stran 170 - It is conceivable that the various kinds of matter, now recognized as different elementary substances, may possess one and the same ultimate or atomic molecule existing in different conditions of movement. The essential unity of matter is an hypothesis in harmony with the equal action of gravity upon all bodies. We know the anxiety with which this point was investigated by Newton, and the care he took to ascertain that every kind of substance, ' metals, stones, woods, grain, salts, animal substances,'...
Stran 256 - As with an invisible trowel, the mass is divided and subdivided into smaller and smaller portions, until it is reduced to an aggregation of granules not too large to build withal the finest fabrics of the nascent organism. And, then, it is as if a delicate finger traced out the line to be occupied by the spinal column, and moulded the contour of the body...
Stran 306 - Thus, by means of repeated selection alone, the length of the ears has been doubled, their contents nearly trebled, and the " tillering" power of the seed increased five-fold.
Stran 288 - The Negro exhibits permanently the imperfect brain, projecting lower jaw, and slender bent limbs of a Caucasian child some considerable time before the period of its birth. The aboriginal American represents the same child nearer birth. The Mongolian is an arrested infant newly born. And so forth.
Stran 77 - The natural philosopher of to-day may dwell amid conceptions which beggar those of Milton. So great and grand are they, that, in the contemplation of them, a certain force of character is requisite to preserve us from bewilderment.