| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 páginas
...earth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces, and the power of our steam-engines, with the remains of plants of ancient forms and extinct...derived from ore, for the most part coeval with, or more aucient than the fuel, by the aid of which we reduce it to its metallic state, and apply it to innumerable... | |
| 1837 - 608 páginas
...earth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces, and the power of our steam-engines, with the remains of plants of ancient forms and extinct...to innumerable uses in the economy of human life. ' Tims, from the wreck of forests that waved upon the surface of the primeval lands, and from ferruginous... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1839 - 422 páginas
...the tools of our mechanics, and the countless machines which we construct, by the infinitely-varied applications of iron, are derived from ore, for the most part coeval with, or Fuel implies the use of fire, and this leads us to look at some of the properties of that wonderful... | |
| 458 páginas
...cutlery, the tools of our mechanics, and the countless machines which are constructed by the infinitively varied applications of iron, are derived from ore,...fuel, by the aid of which we reduce it to its metallic etate, and apply it to innumerable uses in the economy of human life. Thus, from the wreck of forests... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1847 - 430 páginas
...the tools of our mechanics, and the countless machines which we construct, by the infinitely-varied applications of iron, are derived from ore, for the most part coeval with, or Fuel implies the use of fire, and this leads us to look at some of the properties of that wonderful... | |
| Henry Schroder - 1851 - 460 páginas
...instruments of cutlery, the tools of our mechanics, and the countless machines which are constructed by the infinitely varied applications of iron, are...the fuel, by the aid of which we reduce it to its metalic state, and apply it to innumerable uses in the economy of human life. Thus from the wreck of... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 314 páginas
...wealth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces, and the power of our steam-engines, with the remains of plants, of ancient forms, and...innumerable uses in the economy of human life. Thus from wrecks of forests that waved upon the surface of the primeval lands, and from ferruginous mud that... | |
| F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 páginas
...wealth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces, and the power of •our steam-engines, with the remains of plants, of ancient •forms, and...innumerable uses in the economy of human life. Thus from wrecks of forests that waved upon the surface of the primeval lands, and from ferruginous mud that... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 364 páginas
...wealth. We prepare our food, and maintain our forges and furnaces, and the power of our steam-engines, with the remains of plants of ancient forms and extinct...the fuel, by the aid of which we reduce it to its metalic state, and apply it to innumerable uses in the economy of human life. Thus from wrecks of forests... | |
| William Keane (gardener.) - 1861 - 252 páginas
...of mechanics, and the countless machines which are constructed by the infinitely varied application of iron, are derived from ore for the most part coeval...or more ancient than the fuel, by the aid of which it is reduced to its metallic state, and applied to innumerable uses in the economy of human life.... | |
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