Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1850 |
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... atmospheric air , which instantly choked the condenser of the engine , shut off the throttle and water valves , and opened the blow - valves . After this was done , the fly - wheel made only one revolution and a quarter , while ...
... atmospheric air , which instantly choked the condenser of the engine , shut off the throttle and water valves , and opened the blow - valves . After this was done , the fly - wheel made only one revolution and a quarter , while ...
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... atmosphere by pipes or other conductors , for the purpose of diminishing that resistance produced by the motion of the vessel from the motion of the water , commonly called the suc- tion of the stern ; we do not claim the use of these ...
... atmosphere by pipes or other conductors , for the purpose of diminishing that resistance produced by the motion of the vessel from the motion of the water , commonly called the suc- tion of the stern ; we do not claim the use of these ...
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... atmospheric pressure from the punctured part . The puncture is effected by a lancet , whose blade has the form of the cutting apparatus of the leech . This lancet is fixed in the mouth of a tube , and projects about the eighth of an ...
... atmospheric pressure from the punctured part . The puncture is effected by a lancet , whose blade has the form of the cutting apparatus of the leech . This lancet is fixed in the mouth of a tube , and projects about the eighth of an ...
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... atmosphere . The present imperfect machine has lowered a large quantity of matter from 900 Fahrenheit to 50 below zero , and maintained it at the latter temperature for a long time , with but little cost of power ; but a new machine is ...
... atmosphere . The present imperfect machine has lowered a large quantity of matter from 900 Fahrenheit to 50 below zero , and maintained it at the latter temperature for a long time , with but little cost of power ; but a new machine is ...
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... atmospheric air from the centre passage as may be judged desirable ; though the pat- entee states that a large quantity should generally be avoided . By means of the valves , the quantity of gaseous or atmospheric air can be regulated ...
... atmospheric air from the centre passage as may be judged desirable ; though the pat- entee states that a large quantity should generally be avoided . By means of the valves , the quantity of gaseous or atmospheric air can be regulated ...
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Page 355 - Mayne, like a shewer from the South to the North, and from the North to the West, and then downe to the South againe.
Page 237 - We found the pillar to be of solid salt, capped with carbonate of lime, cylindrical in front and pyramidal behind. The upper or rounded part is about forty feet high, resting on a kind of oval pedestal, from forty to sixty feet above the level of the sea. It slightly decreases in size upwards, crumbles at the top, and is one entire mass of crystallization.
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Page 147 - Sometimes it will be more convenient to arrange the two charts in symmetrical positions, one to the left and the other to the right of the subject's median plane, and with a slight inclination toward this plane.