The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1844 |
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... four inches and a half in their greatest width : their blunted points , of about one inch in diameter , are downwards , and the whole are arranged above and about the fire ; they present about fifty square feet to the action of ...
... four inches and a half in their greatest width : their blunted points , of about one inch in diameter , are downwards , and the whole are arranged above and about the fire ; they present about fifty square feet to the action of ...
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... four feet of stroke , and from that point the velocity gradually diminished , until the piston was brought to rest . NEW PLAN OF STEAM - BOAT BOILER . A NEW variety of Steam - boat Boiler has , during the last year or two , been ...
... four feet of stroke , and from that point the velocity gradually diminished , until the piston was brought to rest . NEW PLAN OF STEAM - BOAT BOILER . A NEW variety of Steam - boat Boiler has , during the last year or two , been ...
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... four water - tight bulkheads extend- ing as high as the state deck , it is impossible for the body ever to sink , although it might be bilged in any part from accident . Her engines are collectively of 400 - horse power ; they are upon ...
... four water - tight bulkheads extend- ing as high as the state deck , it is impossible for the body ever to sink , although it might be bilged in any part from accident . Her engines are collectively of 400 - horse power ; they are upon ...
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... four piston - rods , which are prolonged above the shaft by a distance equal to the length of the connecting - rod . Upon the top of these piston - rods a cross is placed , and from the centre of this cross the connecting rod is hung ...
... four piston - rods , which are prolonged above the shaft by a distance equal to the length of the connecting - rod . Upon the top of these piston - rods a cross is placed , and from the centre of this cross the connecting rod is hung ...
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... four deaths , and seventy - one cases of injury . During the past year ( 1842 ) , the number of accidents of this description had been only ten , the number of deaths five , of which only one occurred to a passenger while travelling by ...
... four deaths , and seventy - one cases of injury . During the past year ( 1842 ) , the number of accidents of this description had been only ten , the number of deaths five , of which only one occurred to a passenger while travelling by ...
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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,...