Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1863 |
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... engravings are printed . Mr. Bond has , moreover , taken into his narrative the results obtained by other observers in all parts of the world , and has thus produced the most complete history of Donati's Comet that has yet been written ...
... engravings are printed . Mr. Bond has , moreover , taken into his narrative the results obtained by other observers in all parts of the world , and has thus produced the most complete history of Donati's Comet that has yet been written ...
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... Engraving by Electricity . An ingenious , though not very new machine , was exhibited for engraving copper cylinders employed in the printing of textile fabrics by means of electricity , its distinctive feature being the application of ...
... Engraving by Electricity . An ingenious , though not very new machine , was exhibited for engraving copper cylinders employed in the printing of textile fabrics by means of electricity , its distinctive feature being the application of ...
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... engravings may be enlarged or diminished to any necessary extent from the same original . - Agricultural Implements . The display of different devices for steam - ploughing was very extensive , but embraced no construction of novelty ...
... engravings may be enlarged or diminished to any necessary extent from the same original . - Agricultural Implements . The display of different devices for steam - ploughing was very extensive , but embraced no construction of novelty ...
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... , with the soft tone of the oxidized silver , the effect of this portion of the work rather resembles the proof of a fine engraving than a design hammered out - of the solid silver . The art of enamelling MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 389.
... , with the soft tone of the oxidized silver , the effect of this portion of the work rather resembles the proof of a fine engraving than a design hammered out - of the solid silver . The art of enamelling MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 389.
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... engraved with dates of the Moham- medan era from 1070 to 1168. Other curiosities were an emerald , almost without a flaw , weighing one hundred and fifty - six carats ; another emerald , imperfect , weighing three hundred and seventy ...
... engraved with dates of the Moham- medan era from 1070 to 1168. Other curiosities were an emerald , almost without a flaw , weighing one hundred and fifty - six carats ; another emerald , imperfect , weighing three hundred and seventy ...
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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...