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... heat , a ship properly navigated may be speeding on her way under favorable circum- stances . There is no reason of any insuperable nature why every part of the sea should not be known as well as the land , if not indeed better than the ...
... heat , a ship properly navigated may be speeding on her way under favorable circum- stances . There is no reason of any insuperable nature why every part of the sea should not be known as well as the land , if not indeed better than the ...
Side 39
... heat and moisture has been long known and practised upon ; and when we see the wonderfully perfect results of such simple but effective machinery , it appears strange that its application should never have been made before the present ...
... heat and moisture has been long known and practised upon ; and when we see the wonderfully perfect results of such simple but effective machinery , it appears strange that its application should never have been made before the present ...
Side 43
... heat , for eight or ten hours , can be worse than continuing the same heat for an hour , then a moderate fire for an hour , and so on alter- nately , with the consequent expansion and contraction , and this continued .day after day ...
... heat , for eight or ten hours , can be worse than continuing the same heat for an hour , then a moderate fire for an hour , and so on alter- nately , with the consequent expansion and contraction , and this continued .day after day ...
Side 44
... heat , which has been the real difficulty with other engines for burning anthracite , is preserved , while it has been burned out in all other engines in a few weeks . “ The economy of anthracite engines is now in process of proof by ...
... heat , which has been the real difficulty with other engines for burning anthracite , is preserved , while it has been burned out in all other engines in a few weeks . “ The economy of anthracite engines is now in process of proof by ...
Side 45
... heat ; that is to say , having a higher tempera- ture than is normal to the same pressure of saturated , or ordinary steam ; but it intends the use of a mixture of saturated and surcharged steam . prefer these terms of saturated and ...
... heat ; that is to say , having a higher tempera- ture than is normal to the same pressure of saturated , or ordinary steam ; but it intends the use of a mixture of saturated and surcharged steam . prefer these terms of saturated and ...
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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,...