The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, Volumen 32M. Salmon, 1840 |
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... mode . The quantity of coke consumed on the journey was sixty bushels . The tolls paid amounted to 13s . 2d . Since Mr. Hancock's previous steam travelling , a ... mode by which this in- dividual 8 MODE OF DISCONNECTING PADDLE - WHEELS .
... mode . The quantity of coke consumed on the journey was sixty bushels . The tolls paid amounted to 13s . 2d . Since Mr. Hancock's previous steam travelling , a ... mode by which this in- dividual 8 MODE OF DISCONNECTING PADDLE - WHEELS .
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The policy of the mode by which this in- dividual endeavours to patch up the cause of his friends in the north , is excessively short- sighted . He would have us believe that the engines of the Great Western are in a most distressingly ...
The policy of the mode by which this in- dividual endeavours to patch up the cause of his friends in the north , is excessively short- sighted . He would have us believe that the engines of the Great Western are in a most distressingly ...
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... mode . " But it would be endless to enumerate all the labours that have been substantially successful , although fruitless as to profit to , Sir , your obedient servant , MACERONI . P.S. The papers of this day ( Monday , 25th September ) ...
... mode . " But it would be endless to enumerate all the labours that have been substantially successful , although fruitless as to profit to , Sir , your obedient servant , MACERONI . P.S. The papers of this day ( Monday , 25th September ) ...
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... mode of construction , that will remove the weight and inconvenience of the paddle- box , afford more room on deck , and allow boats to come alongside with safety . " The novelty of the invention consists in the position which has been ...
... mode of construction , that will remove the weight and inconvenience of the paddle- box , afford more room on deck , and allow boats to come alongside with safety . " The novelty of the invention consists in the position which has been ...
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... mode of ascertaining their values , the method of obtaining the gauge points is also shown . By Mr. T. Kentish , published by Relfe and Fletcher , 17 Cornhill . THE CALCULATOR - NO . 5. - LIST OF LOGARITHMIC 22 A TREATISE ON THE BOX OF ...
... mode of ascertaining their values , the method of obtaining the gauge points is also shown . By Mr. T. Kentish , published by Relfe and Fletcher , 17 Cornhill . THE CALCULATOR - NO . 5. - LIST OF LOGARITHMIC 22 A TREATISE ON THE BOX OF ...
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Página 453 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of Eternity, the throne Of the invisible,— even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 31 - The metal is a combination of copper and zinc, the best admixture being found to be 60 per cent, of the former and 40 per cent of the latter. The...
Página 90 - April, 1783, in which he reasons on the experiment of burning the two gases in a close vessel, and draws the conclusion, " that water is composed of dephlogisticated air and phlogiston, deprived of part of their latent heat."* The letter was received by Dr.
Página 89 - about one-fifth of the common air, and nearly all the inflammable air, lose their elasticity, and are condensed into the dew which lines the glass.
Página 89 - Priestley's 5th volume,* gave rise to this inquiry, at least in England ; Mr. Cavendish expressly refers to it, as having set him upon making his experiments. — (Phil. Trans. 1784, p. 126.) The experiment of Mr. Warltire consisted in firing, by electricity, a mixture of inflammable and common air in a close vessel, and two things were said to be observed : first, a sensible loss of weight ; second, a.
Página 584 - ... fixed in a bottle, and the quantity of rain caught is ascertained by multiplying the weight in ounces by 173, which gives the depth in inches and parts of an inch.
Página 187 - I now declare that what I claim as my invention, and wish to secure by letters patent, is the construction and...
Página 89 - Priestley's 5th volume. Mr. Cavendish himself could find no loss of weight, and he says that Dr. Priestley had also tried the experiment, and found none. But Mr. Cavendish found there was always a dewy deposit, without any sooty matter. The result of many trials was, that common air and inflammable air being...
Página 91 - Cavendish leaves it uncertain, whether or not he meant by phlogiston simply inflammable air, and he inclines rather to call inflammable air, water united to phlogiston. Mr. Watt says expressly, even in his later paper (of November 1783), and in a passage not to be found in the letter of April 1783, that he thinks that inflammable air contains a small quantity of water, and much elementary heat. It must be admitted that such expressions as these on the part of both of those great men, betoken a certain...
Página 89 - Lavoisier, as well as of the conclusion drawn from them, that dephlogisticated air is only water deprived of its phlogiston; but, at that time, so far was M. Lavoisier from thinking any such opinion warranted, that till he was prevailed upon to repeat the experiment himself, he found some difficulty in believing that nearly the whole of the two airs could be converted into water.