The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1844 |
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... Glass - working ; Lighting , Heating , and Ven- tilating ; Machinery and Manufactures ; and New Processes in the Useful Arts NATURAL PHILOSOPHY : Terrestrial Magnetism ; Waves and the Tides ; the Atmosphere ; New Phenomena of Light ...
... Glass - working ; Lighting , Heating , and Ven- tilating ; Machinery and Manufactures ; and New Processes in the Useful Arts NATURAL PHILOSOPHY : Terrestrial Magnetism ; Waves and the Tides ; the Atmosphere ; New Phenomena of Light ...
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... glass - painting , & c . HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX , formerly President of the Royal Society . FREDERICK WILH . FACIS , medallist . JAMES HAKEWILL , architect . IPPOLITO ROSSELINI , Egyptian antiquities . GEORGE MADDOX ...
... glass - painting , & c . HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX , formerly President of the Royal Society . FREDERICK WILH . FACIS , medallist . JAMES HAKEWILL , architect . IPPOLITO ROSSELINI , Egyptian antiquities . GEORGE MADDOX ...
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... glass , in single plates , and the inner glazing of an ornamental design in metal , filled with stained glass , bearing arms , and other heraldic insignia , in their proper colours ; but so arranged as that the ground , which I should ...
... glass , in single plates , and the inner glazing of an ornamental design in metal , filled with stained glass , bearing arms , and other heraldic insignia , in their proper colours ; but so arranged as that the ground , which I should ...
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... glass ves- sel containing dilute sulphuric acid , and dilute nitric acid is conveyed into the earthen diaphragm . Experience has shown that the best mix- ture for the coke cylinders should consist of five parts by weight of finely ...
... glass ves- sel containing dilute sulphuric acid , and dilute nitric acid is conveyed into the earthen diaphragm . Experience has shown that the best mix- ture for the coke cylinders should consist of five parts by weight of finely ...
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... glass globe of apparently twelve or thirteen inches diameter , with a moveable reflector , was fixed in connection with a voltaic battery , and at a little before nine o'clock the electric fluid was thrown into it by a conductor . At ...
... glass globe of apparently twelve or thirteen inches diameter , with a moveable reflector , was fixed in connection with a voltaic battery , and at a little before nine o'clock the electric fluid was thrown into it by a conductor . At ...
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