Pike's Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue of Optical, Mathematical, and Philosophical Instruments, Manufactured, Imported, and Sold by the Author: With the Prices Affixed at which They are Offered in 1856. With Upwards of 750 Engravings ...The author, 1856 |
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294 BROADWAY achromatic adjustment air pump altitude angle apparatus attached axis barrel battery body bottom brass ball brass cap centre of gravity circle compass connected consists copper cylinder degrees distance ecliptic edge electrometer equal eye-piece fastened feet fixed fluid force frame German silver glass pillar glass tube globe graduated half handle hole horizontal Hydrometer inches inches in diameter inches long instrument joint lever Leyden jar lower mahogany ment metal motion mounted movable moving needle object object-glass observation ounces parallel pass piece PIKE piston pivots placed plane plate pole Price prime conductor protractor pulley quantity ratus receiver represented round scale screw sextant side slider sliding socket space specific gravity spirit level square stop-cock supported surface tangent-screw telescope theodolite tion turned upper valve velocity vernier vertical vessel weight wheel wire wood zinc