The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Količina 6H.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... common pendulum arc ; thirdly , because there was always some friction or adhesion between the cheeks and the string ; and fourthly ( a reason which applies equally to all the isochronous contrivances since invented ) , because a common ...
... common pendulum arc ; thirdly , because there was always some friction or adhesion between the cheeks and the string ; and fourthly ( a reason which applies equally to all the isochronous contrivances since invented ) , because a common ...
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... common dead escapement , but Fra . 8. - Denison's Three - Legged with a pressure as much less than Escapement . from the centre of the wheel than the impulse pins arc . But the impulse is here given with so little friction , that even ...
... common dead escapement , but Fra . 8. - Denison's Three - Legged with a pressure as much less than Escapement . from the centre of the wheel than the impulse pins arc . But the impulse is here given with so little friction , that even ...
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... common striking - part fly , and should be as long as there is room for , length being much more effective than width . For this purpose the second wheel arbor is shortened and set in a cock fixed on the front plate of the clock , which ...
... common striking - part fly , and should be as long as there is room for , length being much more effective than width . For this purpose the second wheel arbor is shortened and set in a cock fixed on the front plate of the clock , which ...
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... common English house clock with the face taken off , showing the repeating or rack striking movement . Here , as in fig . 1 , M is the hour- wheel , on the pipe of which the minute - hand is set , N the reversed hour - wheel , and n its ...
... common English house clock with the face taken off , showing the repeating or rack striking movement . Here , as in fig . 1 , M is the hour- wheel , on the pipe of which the minute - hand is set , N the reversed hour - wheel , and n its ...
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... common one , except that it touches two slight contact springs a , b alternately , and so closes the circuit on one side and leaves it broken on the other . When that pendulum touches a the B battery does nothing , and the current from ...
... common one , except that it touches two slight contact springs a , b alternately , and so closes the circuit on one side and leaves it broken on the other . When that pendulum touches a the B battery does nothing , and the current from ...
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Stran 292 - ... 4. Watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place ; («) or 5.
Stran 292 - 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 shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Stran 262 - When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like, when done to yourself, do not do to others.
Stran 220 - ... not specifying the same shall be deemed fraudulent on the part of the promoters, directors, and officers of the company knowingly issuing the same, as regards any person taking shares in the company on the faith of such prospectus, unless he shall have had notice of such contract.
Stran 165 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord, shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Stran 135 - 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 321 - 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 136 - 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 292 - Where any person wilfully and maliciously breaks a contract of service or of hiring, 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 endanger human life, or cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property whether real or personal to destruction or serious injury...
Stran 209 - What is a Communist ? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.