Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1863 |
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... 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 , and , we may say , the most attrac- tive . The publication of a splendid work , in ...
... 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 , and , we may say , the most attrac- tive . The publication of a splendid work , in ...
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... obtained from plants which yielded little or no fibre . Flax is to the soil one of the most exhausting crops that can be cultivated . If fibre of fine quality and high price is desired , the crop must be carefully weeded and thinned out ...
... obtained from plants which yielded little or no fibre . Flax is to the soil one of the most exhausting crops that can be cultivated . If fibre of fine quality and high price is desired , the crop must be carefully weeded and thinned out ...
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... obtained . As mere assertion , however , upon a question like this amounts to but little , we would refer specifically , for illustration and proof , to the English wood - working machinery of the Exhibition ; in which department we ...
... obtained . As mere assertion , however , upon a question like this amounts to but little , we would refer specifically , for illustration and proof , to the English wood - working machinery of the Exhibition ; in which department we ...
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... obtained equally good , and a selection is accordingly made . No metallurgical illustrations in the Exhibition were more inter- esting at the present time than the rolled armor - plates for ships . We give the dimensions of two ...
... obtained equally good , and a selection is accordingly made . No metallurgical illustrations in the Exhibition were more inter- esting at the present time than the rolled armor - plates for ships . We give the dimensions of two ...
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... obtained from a mixture of Swedish , Shropshire , and Derbyshire refined iron . It was balled under a four - ton steam hammer , piled under a six - ton , and rolled into bar , re - rolled into slabs , all crossed , then rolled into ...
... obtained from a mixture of Swedish , Shropshire , and Derbyshire refined iron . It was balled under a four - ton steam hammer , piled under a six - ton , and rolled into bar , re - rolled into slabs , all crossed , then rolled into ...
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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...