The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1844 |
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... Illustrated London News , No. 88 ; also the substance of the Report to Parliament on this invention , in Year - Book of Facts , 1843 , p . 14 . COST OF BRITISH RAILWAYS . Designation . Arbroath and Forfar Length . 16 Cost . £ 160,000 ...
... Illustrated London News , No. 88 ; also the substance of the Report to Parliament on this invention , in Year - Book of Facts , 1843 , p . 14 . COST OF BRITISH RAILWAYS . Designation . Arbroath and Forfar Length . 16 Cost . £ 160,000 ...
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... with nine clever engravings , will be found in the Illustrated London News , No. 40 . On April 18 , another of these extensive " blowings - up " of Dover cliffs came off at Lydden - Spout coast - guard MECHANICAL AND USEFUL ARTS . 27.
... with nine clever engravings , will be found in the Illustrated London News , No. 40 . On April 18 , another of these extensive " blowings - up " of Dover cliffs came off at Lydden - Spout coast - guard MECHANICAL AND USEFUL ARTS . 27.
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... Illustrated Polytechnic Review . MARINE SAFETY PORTMANTEAU . LIEUT . IRVINE has presented a Trunk , or Portmanteau , so constructed that neither water nor damp air can penetrate any part of it , although immersed in water for months ...
... Illustrated Polytechnic Review . MARINE SAFETY PORTMANTEAU . LIEUT . IRVINE has presented a Trunk , or Portmanteau , so constructed that neither water nor damp air can penetrate any part of it , although immersed in water for months ...
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... illustrated by a 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 ...
... illustrated by a 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 ...
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... Illustrated London News . MOIRE METALLIQUE . HERBERGER recommends the following process for obtaining a most beautiful Moiré Metallique : -The plate iron to be tinned is dipped into a tin - bath , composed of 200 parts of pure tin , 3 ...
... Illustrated London News . MOIRE METALLIQUE . HERBERGER recommends the following process for obtaining a most beautiful Moiré Metallique : -The plate iron to be tinned is dipped into a tin - bath , composed of 200 parts of pure tin , 3 ...
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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,...