The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1844 |
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... appears to have been upwards of 18,000,000 , it would seem to indicate that the science of locomotion , as far as the public safety is concerned , has arrived at a very high degree of perfection , seeing that out of more than 18,000,000 ...
... appears to have been upwards of 18,000,000 , it would seem to indicate that the science of locomotion , as far as the public safety is concerned , has arrived at a very high degree of perfection , seeing that out of more than 18,000,000 ...
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... appears to have ceased . The concrete has since been removed from the spandrils of all the arches ; and , in the place of a solid mass , brick arches have been substituted between the spandrils , by which nearly a third of the weight of ...
... appears to have ceased . The concrete has since been removed from the spandrils of all the arches ; and , in the place of a solid mass , brick arches have been substituted between the spandrils , by which nearly a third of the weight of ...
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... appears to have forced out the upper part of the iron piles to a considerable distance , and caused the brickwork above to slip down , and force out the iron plate . - Correspondent of the Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal . THE ...
... appears to have forced out the upper part of the iron piles to a considerable distance , and caused the brickwork above to slip down , and force out the iron plate . - Correspondent of the Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal . THE ...
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... appears at first sight . For the sake of clearness , let us call the driving - pulley the drum , and the other the pulley . The belt passed over them , whether plain or crossed , has two free parts , one of which draws , and the other ...
... appears at first sight . For the sake of clearness , let us call the driving - pulley the drum , and the other the pulley . The belt passed over them , whether plain or crossed , has two free parts , one of which draws , and the other ...
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... appears to us one of the most valuable inventions of the day , and not one of the least extraordinary . We could easily have con- ceived the practicability of making a composition possessed of some of the qualities by which the glue is ...
... appears to us one of the most valuable inventions of the day , and not one of the least extraordinary . We could easily have con- ceived the practicability of making a composition possessed of some of the qualities by which the glue is ...
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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,...