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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... minutes . A boat of similar capacity could not be got out if stowed in the usual position on deck under 20 minutes by the whole crew , and in case of fire , probably not at all . It is proposed that steam vessels should have one large ...
... minutes . A boat of similar capacity could not be got out if stowed in the usual position on deck under 20 minutes by the whole crew , and in case of fire , probably not at all . It is proposed that steam vessels should have one large ...
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... minutes , Shoreditch - church was passed at two minutes past ten . This is the spot from whence the miles are mea- sured and the mile - stones placed . The first station for taking in coke and water was the Old Plough at Tottenham , a ...
... minutes , Shoreditch - church was passed at two minutes past ten . This is the spot from whence the miles are mea- sured and the mile - stones placed . The first station for taking in coke and water was the Old Plough at Tottenham , a ...
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... minute . Now , they are arm- ing war steamers with large bomb cannon ; but we shall see what they will do against my rockets , which the late Sir Thomas Hardy , Sir W. S. Pechel , M.P. , and other naval authorities have declared ...
... minute . Now , they are arm- ing war steamers with large bomb cannon ; but we shall see what they will do against my rockets , which the late Sir Thomas Hardy , Sir W. S. Pechel , M.P. , and other naval authorities have declared ...
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... minute , and have thus pro- duced effects at least five fold greater than have heretofore been produced by engines of the same weight . I am aware that I cannot claim the increased speed of which my en- gines admit , in the abstract ...
... minute , and have thus pro- duced effects at least five fold greater than have heretofore been produced by engines of the same weight . I am aware that I cannot claim the increased speed of which my en- gines admit , in the abstract ...
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... minute portion of sulphuric acid ; the quantity of this cannot be easily designated , otherwise than by observing that it shall be no greater than shall suffice to render the acid taste just perceptible . Some- times I add the water ...
... minute portion of sulphuric acid ; the quantity of this cannot be easily designated , otherwise than by observing that it shall be no greater than shall suffice to render the acid taste just perceptible . Some- times I add the water ...
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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.