The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1858 - Science |
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... covered with concrete , and on it were placed railway irons , of the same form as those of the Great Western Railway ; they were placed 18 inches apart from end to end of the launchways , each having about 80 lines of parallel rail . To ...
... covered with concrete , and on it were placed railway irons , of the same form as those of the Great Western Railway ; they were placed 18 inches apart from end to end of the launchways , each having about 80 lines of parallel rail . To ...
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... covered by a semicircular roof , the principals of which are trussed by tie - rods and struts . The height of the crown of the roofs to the picture galleries is 50 feet 6 inches . The height of the coupled columns in the Great Hall is ...
... covered by a semicircular roof , the principals of which are trussed by tie - rods and struts . The height of the crown of the roofs to the picture galleries is 50 feet 6 inches . The height of the coupled columns in the Great Hall is ...
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... covered with piles and scaffolding . The present cost to the country is about 700,000l . The water shelter now provided by the new harbour is about 370 acres , in which upwards of 200 vessels have at one time anchored . About 280 earth ...
... covered with piles and scaffolding . The present cost to the country is about 700,000l . The water shelter now provided by the new harbour is about 370 acres , in which upwards of 200 vessels have at one time anchored . About 280 earth ...
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... covered with asphalte laid on two thicknesses of diagonal elm planking . The weight of the suspended roadway will be 523 lbs . per foot run , or about 33 tons in all . The maximum load is taken at 1 cwt . per square foot , which is ...
... covered with asphalte laid on two thicknesses of diagonal elm planking . The weight of the suspended roadway will be 523 lbs . per foot run , or about 33 tons in all . The maximum load is taken at 1 cwt . per square foot , which is ...
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... covered by a steam - tight chest , or it may be enclosed in the boiler , excepting the exhaust pipe . Although only described as a steam - engine , it may be used as a water - wheel , fire - engine , or pump . When used as a machine for ...
... covered by a steam - tight chest , or it may be enclosed in the boiler , excepting the exhaust pipe . Although only described as a steam - engine , it may be used as a water - wheel , fire - engine , or pump . When used as a machine for ...
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Page 6 - Illustrated with Engravings, fcp. 8vo. 5s. cloth. *»* This work is published annually, and contains a complete and condensed view of the progress of discovery during the year, systematically arranged, with engravings illustrative of novelties in the arts and sciences, &c. The volumes, from its commencement in 1839, may still be had, 5s.
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Page 122 - ... be familiar to practical men, yet appeared to have escaped the attention of those who were more engaged in scientific research. The great fact which he desired to call attention to is comprised in the following general proposition, namely, that all substances in a molten condition are specifically heavier than the same substance in an unmolteu state.
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Page 252 - Fourthly, though the phenomenon is in the strictest sense terrestrial, it is by converse with the heavens that it has been made known to us. A variation of probably a second, or less, in the right ascension of three or four stars, observed at different seasons, no doubt revealed the fact to the sagacious astronomer of Armagh, and even enabled him to divine its cause ; which has been confirmed as the true cause, and placed in a clearer light by the experiments of Mr Hopkins. One useful lesson may...