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Side 28
... applied , the water - wheel revolves with velocity , and the water is discharged by the nozzles on each side of the vessel . These form the only propelling power , and the invention is remarkable for its simplicity and effect . These ...
... applied , the water - wheel revolves with velocity , and the water is discharged by the nozzles on each side of the vessel . These form the only propelling power , and the invention is remarkable for its simplicity and effect . These ...
Side 33
... applied for information , with a great deal of outward politeness and apparent readiness to oblige , were evidently indisposed to afford an officer of a foreign service all the desirable means of becoming acquainted with improvements ...
... applied for information , with a great deal of outward politeness and apparent readiness to oblige , were evidently indisposed to afford an officer of a foreign service all the desirable means of becoming acquainted with improvements ...
Side 36
... applied from below to compress the spring . The glass tube has a small ring fixed in it , just so as to stick at any point to which it is pushed , and the button at the top of the rod serves to push the ring straight , and the ring thus ...
... applied from below to compress the spring . The glass tube has a small ring fixed in it , just so as to stick at any point to which it is pushed , and the button at the top of the rod serves to push the ring straight , and the ring thus ...
Side 39
... applied will at once suggest themselves to the mind . It will give increased strength and lightness to furniture requiring curves of wooden material . The principle of making timber flexible by the aid of heat and moisture has been long ...
... applied will at once suggest themselves to the mind . It will give increased strength and lightness to furniture requiring curves of wooden material . The principle of making timber flexible by the aid of heat and moisture has been long ...
Side 41
... applied to any extent . Ruttan's Car Ventilator . - In this invention , which is highly commended , the fresh , pure air is caught , by a projecting box or cap on the centre of the roof , and conveyed down a passage on the inside of the ...
... applied to any extent . Ruttan's Car Ventilator . - In this invention , which is highly commended , the fresh , pure air is caught , by a projecting box or cap on the centre of the roof , and conveyed down a passage on the inside of the ...
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Side 274 - ... consumed by a given weight of animal, within a given time, and the amount of increase obtained from a given weight of food. The results, which formed the subject of the present communication, afforded further illustration of some of the points brought forward in the former one ; but...
Side 377 - These astronomers are of opinion that this fluid ring is not of very recent formation, and that it is not subject to rapid change , and they have come to the extraordinary conclusion that the inner border of the ring has, since the time of Huygens, been gradually approaching the body of Saturn, and that we may expect, sooner or later, perhaps in some dozen of years, to see the rings united with the body of the planet.
Side 162 - A wire laid across from cither of the above-named places on this side will pass to the north of the Grand Banks, and rest on that beautiful plateau to which I have alluded, and where the waters of the sea appear to be as quiet and as completely at rest as it is at the bottom of a mill-pond.
Side 269 - It fully equalled the expectations of all ; so that solidified milk will hereafter rank among the necessary appendages to the sick room. In fine, this article makes paps, custards, puddings, and cakes, equal to the best milk ; and one may be sure it is an unadulterated article, obtained from well-pastured cattle, and not the produce of distillery slops ; neither can it be watered. For our steamships, our packets, for those travelling by land or by sea, for hotel purposes, or use in private families,...