Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtGould and Lincoln, 1863 |
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... target of 4 - inch iron plates , backed with timber and sand . The plate was indented six inches , but not actually penetrated , and was exhibited along with the gun . During the process of forging it was necessary to move these heavy ...
... target of 4 - inch iron plates , backed with timber and sand . The plate was indented six inches , but not actually penetrated , and was exhibited along with the gun . During the process of forging it was necessary to move these heavy ...
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... scientific , military , and naval men , including agents of several foreign governments . The target consisted of five and a half inches of 5 MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 49 of repair, after which the water might be pumped ...
... scientific , military , and naval men , including agents of several foreign governments . The target consisted of five and a half inches of 5 MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 49 of repair, after which the water might be pumped ...
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... target was , moreover , further strengthened by covering the joints of the skin plates , longitudinally , with five ... target , and five or six bolt ends and nuts were broken off . No. 3 made a hole , of the same diameter as before ...
... target was , moreover , further strengthened by covering the joints of the skin plates , longitudinally , with five ... target , and five or six bolt ends and nuts were broken off . No. 3 made a hole , of the same diameter as before ...
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... target was so fearfully mutilated , that if it had been a ship afloat , seeing the effect of only four shots , she would have been in as bad a predicament as a timber ship . The injury to the armor- plates and to the skin and frame ...
... target was so fearfully mutilated , that if it had been a ship afloat , seeing the effect of only four shots , she would have been in as bad a predicament as a timber ship . The injury to the armor- plates and to the skin and frame ...
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... target with the flame of their explosion . So constant and invaria- ble were these results that it was taken as an established fact that vessels coated with two - and - a - half - inch , or even two - inch armor- plates , would suffice ...
... target with the flame of their explosion . So constant and invaria- ble were these results that it was taken as an established fact that vessels coated with two - and - a - half - inch , or even two - inch armor- plates , would suffice ...
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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...