Mechanics Magazine, Volum 6Knight & Lacey, 1827 |
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Side 6
... means he thinks he will render this useful but hitherto limited manner of constructing roads as general and applicable as turn- pike - roads or canals , and remove from them their greatest objection , namely , the necessity of carrying ...
... means he thinks he will render this useful but hitherto limited manner of constructing roads as general and applicable as turn- pike - roads or canals , and remove from them their greatest objection , namely , the necessity of carrying ...
Side 10
... means , without injury to either , by means of wood or iron , and I think there is no doubt of the practicability of the thing , a very essential national benefit will be ob- tained . Description . Figs . 1 and 2 represent the same ma ...
... means , without injury to either , by means of wood or iron , and I think there is no doubt of the practicability of the thing , a very essential national benefit will be ob- tained . Description . Figs . 1 and 2 represent the same ma ...
Side 12
... means fixed in a frame above it , to warm any liquid which it contains . Observations . The want of some conveniences of this frequently noticed by those who are in kind in country parishes , must have been the habit of visiting the ...
... means fixed in a frame above it , to warm any liquid which it contains . Observations . The want of some conveniences of this frequently noticed by those who are in kind in country parishes , must have been the habit of visiting the ...
Side 13
... mean lunation ; and the months April and June contain half a day each more than a mean lunation ; which differences altogether make seven days , therefore Epact .. 22 20 -- 291 ) 49 ( 1 29 before . 19 days , moon's age , as Now , 360029 ...
... mean lunation ; and the months April and June contain half a day each more than a mean lunation ; which differences altogether make seven days , therefore Epact .. 22 20 -- 291 ) 49 ( 1 29 before . 19 days , moon's age , as Now , 360029 ...
Side 19
... means are made use of for dividing mathematical instruments , but I have contrived two engines that will di- vide , one right lines , the other cir- cles , in any required number of parts , equal or unequal , with the greatest accuracy ...
... means are made use of for dividing mathematical instruments , but I have contrived two engines that will di- vide , one right lines , the other cir- cles , in any required number of parts , equal or unequal , with the greatest accuracy ...
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Side 381 - tis found, Amongst your friends, amongst your foes, On Christian or on Heathen ground ; The flower 's divine where'er it grows ; Neglect the prickles, and assume the rose.
Side 414 - And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged...
Side 491 - A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute; The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds.
Side 539 - There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries...
Side 46 - Phalerion, a painter, celebrated for his nervous representation of the awful and the tremendous, exerted his whole talent. But the flights of poetry can seldom bear to be shackled by homely truth, and if we are to receive the fine imagery, that places the summit of this rock in clouds brooding eternal mists and tempests — that represents it as inaccessible, even to a man provided with twenty hands and twenty feet, and immerses its base among ravenous sea-dogs ; — why not also receive the whole...
Side 314 - Merchant, (in consequence of a Communication made to him by a certain Foreigner residing abroad) for an Invention of certain Improvements in the Construction of Locks and other Fastenings.
Side 512 - His highness, that he might not lose the day uselessly, went again, after dinner, to the other side of the city, extending his excursion as far as Vauxhall, beyond the palace of the Archbishop of Canterbury, to see an hydraulic machine invented by my Lord Somerset, Marquis of Worcester. It raises water more than forty geometrical feet, by the power of one man only; and in a very short...
Side 114 - You will perceive that, by means of these weights placed on different parts of the beam, I can learn the weight of any little mass from one grain, or a little more, to the y^^ of a grain.
Side 232 - To avoid this inconvenience and waste, a brewer of the name of Harwood conceived the idea of making a liquor, which should partake of the same united flavours of ale, beer, and two-penny; he did so, and succeeded, calling it entire...
Side 231 - the natural drink of an Englishman; but beer, on the other hand, which is made of malt, hops, and water, is the natural drink of a Dutchman, and of late is much used in England, to the great detriment of many Englishmen.