Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art for ...1864 |
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... tion , ing , able , ain , ent , est , ance , etc. These we are now obliged to write out over and over again , as if time and labor expended in what may be termed visual speech were of no importance . Neither has our written charac- ter ...
... tion , ing , able , ain , ent , est , ance , etc. These we are now obliged to write out over and over again , as if time and labor expended in what may be termed visual speech were of no importance . Neither has our written charac- ter ...
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... tion of a building designed for a school of art at Nottingham , England . The dome of the tower is to be covered , and some panels in the front filled in with Minton's encaustic tiles , patterned in bright colors . The London Athenæum ...
... tion of a building designed for a school of art at Nottingham , England . The dome of the tower is to be covered , and some panels in the front filled in with Minton's encaustic tiles , patterned in bright colors . The London Athenæum ...
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... tion , to the junction of the High and Middle Level ducts , thence descend- ing by their own gravity through three tunnels to the main reservoir and final outfall . These three tunnels are each nine feet six inches in diam- eter , and ...
... tion , to the junction of the High and Middle Level ducts , thence descend- ing by their own gravity through three tunnels to the main reservoir and final outfall . These three tunnels are each nine feet six inches in diam- eter , and ...
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... tion . The blank to be cut is placed upon a travelling slide , resting upon a semicircular bed , which is mounted in trunnions resting upon swivelling journals , so that the surface of the blank can be presented at the desired angle to ...
... tion . The blank to be cut is placed upon a travelling slide , resting upon a semicircular bed , which is mounted in trunnions resting upon swivelling journals , so that the surface of the blank can be presented at the desired angle to ...
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... tion of alimentary food . They have to pass through a long series of modifications and processes , before becoming fit for use . The end of these preparations is , to free the muscular membrane of the intestine from the two other ...
... tion of alimentary food . They have to pass through a long series of modifications and processes , before becoming fit for use . The end of these preparations is , to free the muscular membrane of the intestine from the two other ...
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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.