The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1844 |
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... passing of the Act for the Regulation of Railways , to the 1st of January , 1842 , from which it appeared that the number of railway accidents of a public nature , attended with personal injury , during the last five months of 1840 ...
... passing of the Act for the Regulation of Railways , to the 1st of January , 1842 , from which it appeared that the number of railway accidents of a public nature , attended with personal injury , during the last five months of 1840 ...
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... passes , in the following manner : -A steel wheel , regulated by a spring , is attached to the carriage , and presses down the valve immediately after the connecting arm has forced it open , and a copper heater , about 5 feet long ...
... passes , in the following manner : -A steel wheel , regulated by a spring , is attached to the carriage , and presses down the valve immediately after the connecting arm has forced it open , and a copper heater , about 5 feet long ...
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... passes over Harlem River in one pipe of 36 inches , placed on the earthen dam made in the construc- tion of the high bridge . The bridge itself will be when finished one of the most stupendous works of the kind in the world . Its cost ...
... passes over Harlem River in one pipe of 36 inches , placed on the earthen dam made in the construc- tion of the high bridge . The bridge itself will be when finished one of the most stupendous works of the kind in the world . Its cost ...
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... passes through the hollow shaft of the tower , and is made to revolve by a crown wheel on the shaft of the wind wheel ; and from its lower end , motion is communicated to any kind of machinery to be driven . The lower inner edge of the ...
... passes through the hollow shaft of the tower , and is made to revolve by a crown wheel on the shaft of the wind wheel ; and from its lower end , motion is communicated to any kind of machinery to be driven . The lower inner edge of the ...
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... passes , warming itself in its passage ; the swimmer floats , the animal heat retained , his confidence rapidly returning . The temperature of the sea is rarely under 40 deg . Fahr .; at that temperature , twenty hours ' exposure could ...
... passes , warming itself in its passage ; the swimmer floats , the animal heat retained , his confidence rapidly returning . The temperature of the sea is rarely under 40 deg . Fahr .; at that temperature , twenty hours ' exposure could ...
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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,...