The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1844 |
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... ELECTRICITY ; CHEMISTRY ; ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY ; GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY ; METEOROLOGY AND ASTRONOMY . Ellustrated with Engravings . BY THE EDITOR OF " THE ARCANA OF SCIENCE . " " Science exalts the mind , and raises it above minor matters ...
... ELECTRICITY ; CHEMISTRY ; ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY ; GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY ; METEOROLOGY AND ASTRONOMY . Ellustrated with Engravings . BY THE EDITOR OF " THE ARCANA OF SCIENCE . " " Science exalts the mind , and raises it above minor matters ...
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... electricity to prac- tical purposes , by using it for blasts in rocks to obtain stone for build- ing , in 1831 , as minutely described in Silliman's American Journal of Science , vol . xxvi . p . 352 ; and also briefly noticed in the ...
... electricity to prac- tical purposes , by using it for blasts in rocks to obtain stone for build- ing , in 1831 , as minutely described in Silliman's American Journal of Science , vol . xxvi . p . 352 ; and also briefly noticed in the ...
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... electricity in March , 1823 , which he effected to the astonishment of numerous spectators by a common electrical machine , from the cabin of a small vessel at anchor in that port ; whilst the charge was placed in another at a ...
... electricity in March , 1823 , which he effected to the astonishment of numerous spectators by a common electrical machine , from the cabin of a small vessel at anchor in that port ; whilst the charge was placed in another at a ...
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... electric fluid was thrown into it by a conductor . At this time , all the gas lights in the place , about 100 in number , were burning . As soon as the electric light appeared , the nearest gas lights had the same dull , thick , and ...
... electric fluid was thrown into it by a conductor . At this time , all the gas lights in the place , about 100 in number , were burning . As soon as the electric light appeared , the nearest gas lights had the same dull , thick , and ...
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... electric light . It gives out no bad smell ; it emits none of those ele- ments which , in the burning of gas , are so injurious to health , and ex- plosion would be impossible . The only danger that would arise would be at the battery ...
... electric light . It gives out no bad smell ; it emits none of those ele- ments which , in the burning of gas , are so injurious to health , and ex- plosion would be impossible . The only danger that would arise would be at the battery ...
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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,...