Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Metallurgists, Mine Proprietors, Engineers, Shipbuilders, Scientists, Capitalists ..., Volume 32Perry Fairfax Nursey Knight and Lacey, 1840 |
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... half up , and half down each roller , the shield being kept apart the same b Ъ Fig . 3 . MR . HANCOCK'S STEAM JOURNEY TO CAMBRIDGE . MR .
... half up , and half down each roller , the shield being kept apart the same b Ъ Fig . 3 . MR . HANCOCK'S STEAM JOURNEY TO CAMBRIDGE . MR .
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... half , rendered it useless for all purposes ex- cept for pastry cooks , who , I believe , occasionally practice this mode of pre- paration to make their jellies keep in summer , as well as to clear them . Mr. Rattray of Aberdeen has ...
... half , rendered it useless for all purposes ex- cept for pastry cooks , who , I believe , occasionally practice this mode of pre- paration to make their jellies keep in summer , as well as to clear them . Mr. Rattray of Aberdeen has ...
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... half ) ; seventh mile five minutes ; eighth mile three minutes ; ninth mile four minutes ; tenth mile three minutes ; eleventh mile four minutes . Near to the twelfth mile - stone , the stay of the blower broke , and after a stoppage of ...
... half ) ; seventh mile five minutes ; eighth mile three minutes ; ninth mile four minutes ; tenth mile three minutes ; eleventh mile four minutes . Near to the twelfth mile - stone , the stay of the blower broke , and after a stoppage of ...
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... half , three , three and a - half , and four cwt . , laid upon the middle of each ; the last weight being within a few pounds of the breaking weight . The intention was to ascertain what effect would arise from each of these weights ...
... half , three , three and a - half , and four cwt . , laid upon the middle of each ; the last weight being within a few pounds of the breaking weight . The intention was to ascertain what effect would arise from each of these weights ...
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... half year , done much 31 more business in the article than in copper itself . The captains who have lately given it a trial , speak highly of its good qualities ; and one vessel plated with it has made three successive voyages from ...
... half year , done much 31 more business in the article than in copper itself . The captains who have lately given it a trial , speak highly of its good qualities ; and one vessel plated with it has made three successive voyages from ...
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acid advantage æther angle apparatus appears applied Argand burner boat boiler braces bridge Bude light burner canal carbonic acid carriage cast iron cause centre Charles Blagden chemical affinity civil engineer Clovis coal common conductors construction copper cylinder diameter diving bell effect Ellesmere Canal employed engine engraving equal experiments feet fire flame fluid Galignani glass heat horses improvements inches invention iron John Robison labour length letter light Liverpool London machine machinery Magazine manufacture mastic means Mechanics ment Messrs metal mode motion NOTES AND NOTICES observed obtained operation paddle paddle-wheel paper passing patent piece pipe piston plate present pressure principle produced propelling purpose quantity Railway ratus rectangular floats render rope screw shaft ship side six months steam steam-engine stove surface Telford tion trapezium floats treenails tube valve vessel W. A. Robertson weight wheel zinc
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Page 453 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime. The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 221 - An Act to secure to Proprietors of Designs for articles of Manufacture the Copyright of such Designs for a limited Time.
Page 412 - I have the honour to be, Sir, " With great respect, "Your most obed. and very humble servant, " BYRON.
Page 601 - ... fixed in a bottle, and the quantity of rain caught is ascertained by multiplying the weight in ounces by 173, which gives the depth in inches and parts of an inch.
Page 91 - Phlogiston, without exactly defining it. Mr. Cavendish leaves it uncertain, whether or not he meant by phlogiston simply inflammable air, and he inclines rather to call inflammable air, water united to phlogiston. Mr. Watt says expressly, even in his later paper (of November 1783), and in a passage not to be found in the letter of April 1783, that he thinks that inflammable air contains a small quantity of water, and much elementary heat.
Page 89 - Mr. Cavendish himself could find no loss of weight, and he says, that Dr. Priestley had also tried the experiment, and found none.* But Mr. Cavendish found there was always a dewy deposit, without any sooty matter. The result of many trials was, that common air and inflammable air being burnt together, in the proportion of 1000 measures of the former to 423 of the latter, " about one-fifth of the common air, and nearly all the inflammable air, lose their elasticity, and are condensed into the dew...
Page 89 - Lavoisier, as well as of the conclusion drawn from them, that dephlogisticated air is only water deprived of phlogiston ; but at that time so far was M. Lavoisier from thinking any such opinion warranted, that, till he was prevailed upon to repeat the experiment himself, he found some difficulty in believing that nearly the whole of the two airs could be converted into water.
Page 31 - The metal is a combination of copper and zinc, the best admixture being found to be 60 per cent, of the former, and 40 per cent, of the latter. The...
Page 222 - No person shall adopt any such registered design on any article of manufacture for sale, either wholly or partially, by making any addition to any original part thereof, or by making any subtraction from any original part thereof: And if any person commit any such act, he shall for every offence forfeit a sum not less than five pounds and not exceeding thirty pounds, to the proprietor of the design, in respect of which such offence has been committed.