The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, Volume 8

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William Laxton
William Laxton, 1845

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Page 148 - Who counsels best? who whispers, "Be but great, With praise or infamy leave that to fate; Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place~
Page 79 - The Tartar invasion was mischievous ; but it is our protection that destroys India. It was their enmity, but it is our friendship. Our conquest there, after twenty years, is as .crude as it was the first day. The natives scarcely know what it is to see the grey head of an Englishman. Young men (boys almost) govern there, without society, and without sympathy with the native. They have no more social habits with the...
Page 79 - ... here is due to the surface of the picture itself. For pure landscapes, it has a pleasing effect, and by adopting some of the recent inventions for stopping out the deposit of copper, the green colour may be had wherever desired. In some pictures a curious variety of colours is obtained, owing to the varying thickness of the deposit of copper, which is governed by the thickness of the deposit of mercury forming the picture. In one instance a clear and beautiful ruby colour was produced, limited...
Page 142 - ... from the tails and atmospheres of comets, and the zodiacal light in our own system. But though all idea of its being ever given to mortal eye, to view aught that can be regarded as an outstanding portion of...
Page 79 - First, a mode of fixing and strengthening pictures by oxidation : — The impression being obtained upon a highly polished plate, and made to receive, by galvanic agency, a very slight deposit of copper from the cupreous cyanide of...
Page 79 - ... concerning this last process, but I will state, in a general way, that my best results were obtained by giving the plate such a coating of copper as to change the tone of the picture, that is, give it a coppery colour, and then heating it over a spirit-lamp until it assumes the colour desired.
Page 79 - Englishman is lost for ever to India. With us are no retributory superstitions, by which a foundation of charity compensates, through ages, to the poor, for the rapine and injustice of a day. With us no pride erects stately monuments which repair the mischiefs which pride had produced, and which adorn a country out of its own spoils. England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools.
Page 187 - ... and the crushing weight was applied in the direction of the strata. From the experiments on the two series of pillars it appears that there is a falling off in strength in all columns from the shortest to the longest ; but that the diminution is so small, when the height of the column is not greater than about 12 the side of its square, that the strength may be considered as uniform, the mean being 10,000 Ib.
Page 64 - It will be seen amidst the erection of temples, tombs, palaces, theatres, bridges, making noble roads, catting canals, granting multitude of charters and liberties for comfort of decayed companies and corporations : the foundation of colleges and lectures for learning and the education of youth ; foundations and institutions...
Page 157 - Ibs., may be found in the same way. This area having been obtained on the supposition that no more air is admitted than the quantity chemically required, and that the combustion is complete and perfect in the furnace, it is evident that this area must be much increased in practice, where we know these conditions are not fulfilled, but that a large surplus quantity of air is always admitted. A limit is thus found for the area over the bridge, or the area of the flue immediately behind the furnace,...

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