The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1844 |
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... remarkable circumstance is , that the foot - paths and roofs covered with asphalte did not ignite , and that the ground underneath the smouldering ruins , which , for a whole fortnight - in some in- stances for eight weeks , or even ...
... remarkable circumstance is , that the foot - paths and roofs covered with asphalte did not ignite , and that the ground underneath the smouldering ruins , which , for a whole fortnight - in some in- stances for eight weeks , or even ...
Page 84
... remarkable degree of durability . An indicator , attached to the sweeping apparatus , shows the extent of surface swept during the day , and acts as a useful check on the driver . The cart is drawn by two horses . The economy effected ...
... remarkable degree of durability . An indicator , attached to the sweeping apparatus , shows the extent of surface swept during the day , and acts as a useful check on the driver . The cart is drawn by two horses . The economy effected ...
Page 102
... remarkable degree with the observations , upon the same subject , in the Report lately presented by Mr. Barry to the Commissioner on the Fine Arts . " It is true , " Mr. Hosking went on to say , " that my suggestions stand alone in the ...
... remarkable degree with the observations , upon the same subject , in the Report lately presented by Mr. Barry to the Commissioner on the Fine Arts . " It is true , " Mr. Hosking went on to say , " that my suggestions stand alone in the ...
Page 117
... REMARKABLE TIDES . ON September 4 , was read to the Academy of Sciences , at Paris , a paper on a remarkable phenomenon of the tides at the Sand- wich Islands , on the 7th of November , 1837 , as recorded by M. T. C. Byde Rooke . On the ...
... REMARKABLE TIDES . ON September 4 , was read to the Academy of Sciences , at Paris , a paper on a remarkable phenomenon of the tides at the Sand- wich Islands , on the 7th of November , 1837 , as recorded by M. T. C. Byde Rooke . On the ...
Page 119
... remarkable manner , the mechanism which propagates along our shores and rivers the great ocean - wave , which carries from one place to another the successive phenomena of the tides - in such a manner as could not have been attained by ...
... remarkable manner , the mechanism which propagates along our shores and rivers the great ocean - wave , which carries from one place to another the successive phenomena of the tides - in such a manner as could not have been attained by ...
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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,...