The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1844 |
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... drawing part is distended more , and the following part less than usual ; and experiments show , that , within all practical limits , this change is exactly proportional to the pressure necessary for overcoming the resistance . As the ...
... drawing part is distended more , and the following part less than usual ; and experiments show , that , within all practical limits , this change is exactly proportional to the pressure necessary for overcoming the resistance . As the ...
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... drawing of the furnace necessary for the process , and by specimens of the iron and steel produced . USE OF GAS IN THE PREPARATION OF IRON . M. EBELMEN has communicated to the Academy of Sciences , at Paris , a paper respecting the ...
... drawing of the furnace necessary for the process , and by specimens of the iron and steel produced . USE OF GAS IN THE PREPARATION OF IRON . M. EBELMEN has communicated to the Academy of Sciences , at Paris , a paper respecting the ...
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... drawing stove principle to a lamp burner . This arrangement , in the chandelier exhibited , formed a part of the central support , and was ornamental as well as useful . Trial was made between the celebrated inventions - the Bude and ...
... drawing stove principle to a lamp burner . This arrangement , in the chandelier exhibited , formed a part of the central support , and was ornamental as well as useful . Trial was made between the celebrated inventions - the Bude and ...
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... drawing showing the mode of con- structing the roofs , and the improved method proposed by the author , with specimens of the composition , with slates imbedded , taken from the roof of the palace during some recent alterations . An ...
... drawing showing the mode of con- structing the roofs , and the improved method proposed by the author , with specimens of the composition , with slates imbedded , taken from the roof of the palace during some recent alterations . An ...
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... drawings , & c . It con- sists of linen or calico , or any similar fabric , cemented to paper , either on one or ... drawing , having been finished by the artist on the stone with lithographic ink mixed with water to produce the various ...
... drawings , & c . It con- sists of linen or calico , or any similar fabric , cemented to paper , either on one or ... drawing , having been finished by the artist on the stone with lithographic ink mixed with water to produce the various ...
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Page 287 - Cowper's Poems. With Life and Critical Remarks, by the Rev. THOMAS DALE : and 75 fine Engravings by J. Orrin Smith, from Drawings by J. Gilbert. Two vols. crown 8vo. 24s. cloth ; 84s. morocco. " The handsomest of the editions of Cowper."— SPECTAToR.
Page 241 - Some cause there must be, which would explain how the practice has become a necessary of life to whole nations. But it is surely still more remarkable, that the beneficial effects of both plants on the health must be ascribed to one and the same substance, the presence of which in two vegetables, belonging to different natural families, and the produce of different quarters of the globe, could hardly have presented itself to the boldest imagination.
Page 193 - ... which form the lights of the print, to a sufficient depth ; but in glyphography the depth of these parts is formed by the remaining portions of the white composition on the plate, analogous to the thickness or height of which must be the depth on the block, seeing that the latter is, in fact (to simplify the matter), a cast or reverse, of the former. But if this composition were spread on the plate as thickly as required for this purpose, it would be impossible for the artist to put either close,...