The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1844 |
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... Substances and Compounds ; Daguerréotype - Photo- graphy - Chromatype - Tithonotype NATURAL HISTORY : 5-108 • 109-173 • 174-195 196-227 ZOOLOGY : Structural Economy ; Mammalia , Birds , Fishes , Reptiles , Zoophytes , and Insects ; New ...
... Substances and Compounds ; Daguerréotype - Photo- graphy - Chromatype - Tithonotype NATURAL HISTORY : 5-108 • 109-173 • 174-195 196-227 ZOOLOGY : Structural Economy ; Mammalia , Birds , Fishes , Reptiles , Zoophytes , and Insects ; New ...
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... substance which would be air - tight , and yet would permit the connecting rod to pass without offering much obstruction . For this purpose the opening at the top is covered by a continuous valve , extending the whole length of the pipe ...
... substance which would be air - tight , and yet would permit the connecting rod to pass without offering much obstruction . For this purpose the opening at the top is covered by a continuous valve , extending the whole length of the pipe ...
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... substance of the Report to Parliament on this invention , in Year - Book of Facts , 1843 , p . 14 . COST OF BRITISH RAILWAYS . Designation . Arbroath and Forfar Length . 16 Cost . £ 160,000 Androssan and Johnstan .. 5 19,250 Aylesbury 7 ...
... substance of the Report to Parliament on this invention , in Year - Book of Facts , 1843 , p . 14 . COST OF BRITISH RAILWAYS . Designation . Arbroath and Forfar Length . 16 Cost . £ 160,000 Androssan and Johnstan .. 5 19,250 Aylesbury 7 ...
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... sea 2,000,000 solid feet of sediment every hour . + See page 34 of the Fourth Report of the Commissioners on the Nature and Extent of the Bogs in Ireland . water and the substances with which it is charged , MECHANICAL AND USEFUL ARTS . 37.
... sea 2,000,000 solid feet of sediment every hour . + See page 34 of the Fourth Report of the Commissioners on the Nature and Extent of the Bogs in Ireland . water and the substances with which it is charged , MECHANICAL AND USEFUL ARTS . 37.
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... substances by which water should be impregnated for irrigation , and also the increase of manures for cultivated land that might be obtained by preserving the sewerage and refuse of towns . - From an exceedingly valuable and interesting ...
... substances by which water should be impregnated for irrigation , and also the increase of manures for cultivated land that might be obtained by preserving the sewerage and refuse of towns . - From an exceedingly valuable and interesting ...
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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,...