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... direction of the committee , and of Mr. Welsh , the curator , to record , by a self - acting process , something similar to that of the anemometer , the variations in the earth's magnetism . From the address of the President we make the ...
... direction of the committee , and of Mr. Welsh , the curator , to record , by a self - acting process , something similar to that of the anemometer , the variations in the earth's magnetism . From the address of the President we make the ...
Side 26
... directions , navigators have been enabled to shorten their passages materially ; in many cases as much as one - fourth , in some one - third of the distance or time previously employed . Much had been collected and written about the ...
... directions , navigators have been enabled to shorten their passages materially ; in many cases as much as one - fourth , in some one - third of the distance or time previously employed . Much had been collected and written about the ...
Side 27
... Directions , ( the real condensed results of his elaborate and indefatigable researches , ) have effected the actual benefits obtained by mariners . Re- flecting on this evil , which increasing information would not tend to diminish ...
... Directions , ( the real condensed results of his elaborate and indefatigable researches , ) have effected the actual benefits obtained by mariners . Re- flecting on this evil , which increasing information would not tend to diminish ...
Side 28
... direction , or stops altogether , even with the engines working at full power . Although capacity rather than speed was studied in the construction of the vessel , it easily attained 11 knots an hour . Economy of fuel , freedom from ...
... direction , or stops altogether , even with the engines working at full power . Although capacity rather than speed was studied in the construction of the vessel , it easily attained 11 knots an hour . Economy of fuel , freedom from ...
Side 37
... direction of Prof. Farey . The difficulties to be overcome in a machine of this charac- ter , are certainly many and serious . We are not aware of the work having been attempted in any other manner than by sawing . The ordinary saw ...
... direction of Prof. Farey . The difficulties to be overcome in a machine of this charac- ter , are certainly many and serious . We are not aware of the work having been attempted in any other manner than by sawing . The ordinary saw ...
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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,...