Annals of Philosophy, Volume 22Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823 - Agriculture |
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... former paper that this upon an average burns for 20 hours per week , the estimate in the report is four hours per night , or 24 hours per week . This extra allowance will account for those lights which extend beyond nine o'clock , and ...
... former paper that this upon an average burns for 20 hours per week , the estimate in the report is four hours per night , or 24 hours per week . This extra allowance will account for those lights which extend beyond nine o'clock , and ...
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... former , and 18 gal- lons of the latter . Now it is not very probable that a chaldron of coals in their hands should obtain an excess of 13 gallons of two products without any diminution of the others . The more likely supposition is ...
... former , and 18 gal- lons of the latter . Now it is not very probable that a chaldron of coals in their hands should obtain an excess of 13 gallons of two products without any diminution of the others . The more likely supposition is ...
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... former instance , before explosion could take place : neither would lightning have any effect on a full gasome- ter . I can conceive that if a gasometer filled with a certain portion of carburetted hydrogen and air so as to form an ...
... former instance , before explosion could take place : neither would lightning have any effect on a full gasome- ter . I can conceive that if a gasometer filled with a certain portion of carburetted hydrogen and air so as to form an ...
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... former observation of Mr. P. Taylor , that in burning oil gas or coal gas through the large hole burners , more than double the quantity of the latter is consumed than the former . In the course of my experiments , I applied one of the ...
... former observation of Mr. P. Taylor , that in burning oil gas or coal gas through the large hole burners , more than double the quantity of the latter is consumed than the former . In the course of my experiments , I applied one of the ...
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... former courses ; but that a gale in this line , making only a small angle with the lee shore , never raises a high surf at the harbour , and the surf is least in a gale directly into the entrance hi ; for as it faces the calmest quarter ...
... former courses ; but that a gale in this line , making only a small angle with the lee shore , never raises a high surf at the harbour , and the surf is least in a gale directly into the entrance hi ; for as it faces the calmest quarter ...
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Page 346 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Page 376 - If now a mixture of two volumes of hydrogen and one volume of oxygen is introduced into...
Page 110 - From the foregoing statements it may be safely inferred that " the mean height of the barometer at the level of the sea being the same in every part of the globe...
Page 76 - THE PHILOSOPHY OF Music ; being the substance of a Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March 1877. By William Pole, FRS, FRSE, Mus.
Page 219 - Microscopical Observations on the Suspension of the Muscular Motions of the Vibrio tritici," which forms the Croonian Lecture for that year.
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Page 468 - ... fracture and a vitreous lustre. These results were nearly uniform, in various trials ; and every thing seems to indicate that were the diamond a good conductor, it would be melted by the deflagrator ; and were it incombustible, a globule would be obtained by the compound blow-pipe.
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Page 348 - God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till, the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.