Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1863 |
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... experiments . Mr. Mallet has recently made public , in two portly illustrated octavos , a report on the last great earthquake in the Neapolitan territory , and on seismology in general ; and , by way of supplementing those researches ...
... experiments . Mr. Mallet has recently made public , in two portly illustrated octavos , a report on the last great earthquake in the Neapolitan territory , and on seismology in general ; and , by way of supplementing those researches ...
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... experiments on flax - cotton , but the dissem- ination of correct information of what has been accomplished , and the results of European and American experience . Until this is done , our inventors and manufacturers work in the dark ...
... experiments on flax - cotton , but the dissem- ination of correct information of what has been accomplished , and the results of European and American experience . Until this is done , our inventors and manufacturers work in the dark ...
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... Experiments are being carried on with this system of ordnance in France , Russia , and other countries . General Guiod , of the French artillery , asserts that in France favorable results have been obtained . In small - arms , specimens ...
... Experiments are being carried on with this system of ordnance in France , Russia , and other countries . General Guiod , of the French artillery , asserts that in France favorable results have been obtained . In small - arms , specimens ...
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... experiments , necessarily , have had to be conducted on one of two essentially different principles : by " compression , " i . e . , forcing the clay , either in a wet or dry state , into moulds to form the brick ; or by " expres- sion ...
... experiments , necessarily , have had to be conducted on one of two essentially different principles : by " compression , " i . e . , forcing the clay , either in a wet or dry state , into moulds to form the brick ; or by " expres- sion ...
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... experiments already made , the scheme bids fair to be realized before long on a grand scale , and produce a revolution in the dispatch of letters as great at least as that of the introduction of the penny - postage . There seems no ...
... experiments already made , the scheme bids fair to be realized before long on a grand scale , and produce a revolution in the dispatch of letters as great at least as that of the introduction of the penny - postage . There seems no ...
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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...