Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1863 |
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... discovery of a method whereby flax- cotton could be spun on cotton machinery , - an achievement which was successfully effected more than ten years since , both in England and in this country . - - The reasons which render the flax ...
... discovery of a method whereby flax- cotton could be spun on cotton machinery , - an achievement which was successfully effected more than ten years since , both in England and in this country . - - The reasons which render the flax ...
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... discovery of a method to render the colors permanent , to be , even now , a success . The spectroscope , with varied improve- ments , has already become a familiar instrument with chemists , and during the past year has given us some ...
... discovery of a method to render the colors permanent , to be , even now , a success . The spectroscope , with varied improve- ments , has already become a familiar instrument with chemists , and during the past year has given us some ...
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... Discovery for 1863 the portrait of J. ERICSSON ( from a photograph by Fredericks , of New York ) , the inventor of the " Caloric Engine , " the designer of the " Monitor " iron - clads , and the foremost of American mechanical engineers ...
... Discovery for 1863 the portrait of J. ERICSSON ( from a photograph by Fredericks , of New York ) , the inventor of the " Caloric Engine , " the designer of the " Monitor " iron - clads , and the foremost of American mechanical engineers ...
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... DISCOVERY . MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1862 , AND ITS NOVELTIES . THE second great English Exhibition of the Industry of all Na- tions opened at London , May 1st , 1862 , and continued for six ...
... DISCOVERY . MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1862 , AND ITS NOVELTIES . THE second great English Exhibition of the Industry of all Na- tions opened at London , May 1st , 1862 , and continued for six ...
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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...