The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1844 |
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... New Comets ; Meteors ; Remarkable Temperatures ; with a Meteorogical Summary for the Year OBITUARY of Persons eminent in Science or Art , 1813 242-254 255-278 279-285 THE FRONTISPIECE . This Portrait of DR . JUSTUS LIEBIG.
... New Comets ; Meteors ; Remarkable Temperatures ; with a Meteorogical Summary for the Year OBITUARY of Persons eminent in Science or Art , 1813 242-254 255-278 279-285 THE FRONTISPIECE . This Portrait of DR . JUSTUS LIEBIG.
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... remarkable . The shafts are made of the best ash , but after three or four months ' use the strength of the wood is so much deteriorated , that the shafts break off short , as if they were rotten . Copper is also similarly affected by ...
... remarkable . The shafts are made of the best ash , but after three or four months ' use the strength of the wood is so much deteriorated , that the shafts break off short , as if they were rotten . Copper is also similarly affected by ...
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... ( for the third time ) , and worked in the rolls to a round bar , 8 inches in diameter , and about 14 feet long . A Correspondent of the same paper mentions , as something still more remarkable , MECHANICAL AND USEFUL ARTS . 51.
... ( for the third time ) , and worked in the rolls to a round bar , 8 inches in diameter , and about 14 feet long . A Correspondent of the same paper mentions , as something still more remarkable , MECHANICAL AND USEFUL ARTS . 51.
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... remarkable , a cable bolt which has been since cast at the Cyfarthfa Iron Works . The pile , weighing about 26 cwt . , was , after being properly heated , taken out of the heating furnace and put at once into the rolls , and , in the ...
... remarkable , a cable bolt which has been since cast at the Cyfarthfa Iron Works . The pile , weighing about 26 cwt . , was , after being properly heated , taken out of the heating furnace and put at once into the rolls , and , in the ...
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... remarkable fact was es- tablished by experiments carefully performed with the same standard wax candles which I employed for comparison prior to my examination before the late committee appointed to ascertain the best mode of light- ing ...
... remarkable fact was es- tablished by experiments carefully performed with the same standard wax candles which I employed for comparison prior to my examination before the late committee appointed to ascertain the best mode of light- ing ...
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