Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1863 |
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... atmosphere is always clear , and it is almost entirely free from the rising and falling currents of air , which offer such great optical difficulties to observation on most of the elevated points of the globe . We present to the readers ...
... atmosphere is always clear , and it is almost entirely free from the rising and falling currents of air , which offer such great optical difficulties to observation on most of the elevated points of the globe . We present to the readers ...
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... atmospheric air at a high temperature in a charcoal hearth . " Natural steel , " as the material thus formed is termed , is largely manufactured in central Europe ; the most renowned estab- lishment being the " Imperial Works " of ...
... atmospheric air at a high temperature in a charcoal hearth . " Natural steel , " as the material thus formed is termed , is largely manufactured in central Europe ; the most renowned estab- lishment being the " Imperial Works " of ...
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... atmosphere of such a furnace can be rendered either reducing or oxi- dizing at will by regulating the amount of blast . At the bottom of the generator is a door , by means of which the ashes or clinker from the fuel may be withdrawn ...
... atmosphere of such a furnace can be rendered either reducing or oxi- dizing at will by regulating the amount of blast . At the bottom of the generator is a door , by means of which the ashes or clinker from the fuel may be withdrawn ...
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... atmospheric pressure , is about to be applied practically and upon a large scale in London ( see Annual of Scientific Discov- ery , 1861 and 1862 ) for conveying or pumping the mail from Easton Square ( a great railroad depot ) to a ...
... atmospheric pressure , is about to be applied practically and upon a large scale in London ( see Annual of Scientific Discov- ery , 1861 and 1862 ) for conveying or pumping the mail from Easton Square ( a great railroad depot ) to a ...
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... atmospheres . This water afterwards is discharged as be- fore , and fresh air admitted ; but it should be understood that when the air is compressed in the upper portion of the vertical cylinder it passes away at once by small tubes ...
... atmospheres . This water afterwards is discharged as be- fore , and fresh air admitted ; but it should be understood that when the air is compressed in the upper portion of the vertical cylinder it passes away at once by small tubes ...
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Seite 140 - In this ascension, six pigeons were taken up. One was thrown out at the height of three miles ; it extended its wings and dropped...
Seite 171 - In order to explain,' he says, ' the occurrence of the dark lines in the solar spectrum, we must assume that the solar atmosphere encloses a luminous nucleus, producing a continuous spectrum, the brightness of which exceeds a certain limit. The most probable supposition which can be made respecting the sun's constitution is, that it consists of a solid or liquid nucleus, heated to a temperature of the brightest whiteness, surrounded by an atmosphere of somewhat lower temperature. This supposition...