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... bottom of the boat allows the free ingress or egress of water , which a half - turn stops ; the plug is consequently never out of its place . IMPROVEMENTS IN NAVAL ARCHITECTURE . Iron Tubular Ships . - James Hodgson , of Liverpool ...
... bottom of the boat allows the free ingress or egress of water , which a half - turn stops ; the plug is consequently never out of its place . IMPROVEMENTS IN NAVAL ARCHITECTURE . Iron Tubular Ships . - James Hodgson , of Liverpool ...
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... bottom of the cask . The buoyancy thus produced by the confined air is what raises the vessel . A novel variety of lifting tanks for raising sunken vessels has recently been invented by Capt . Bell . These , combined , are a novel and ...
... bottom of the cask . The buoyancy thus produced by the confined air is what raises the vessel . A novel variety of lifting tanks for raising sunken vessels has recently been invented by Capt . Bell . These , combined , are a novel and ...
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... The construction is simple enough . A boiler is made , traversed by a coni- cal tube of copper , 30 inches diameter at the top , 35 inches at the bottom , inside of which a cone of wood of the same MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 45.
... The construction is simple enough . A boiler is made , traversed by a coni- cal tube of copper , 30 inches diameter at the top , 35 inches at the bottom , inside of which a cone of wood of the same MECHANICS AND USEFUL ARTS . 45.
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... bottom with an- other cylinder , exactly similar to the preceding . These two are the Working Cylinders . 3. An apparatus termed a Respirator , disposed around each work- ing cylinder , being the communication between the cylinders and ...
... bottom with an- other cylinder , exactly similar to the preceding . These two are the Working Cylinders . 3. An apparatus termed a Respirator , disposed around each work- ing cylinder , being the communication between the cylinders and ...
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... bottom of the boiler and open to the water . The rod of the valve is also connected with the lever mentioned . This valve The covers the mouth of a bent tube , which passes down into the fire box . spring balance is set at the pressure ...
... bottom of the boiler and open to the water . The rod of the valve is also connected with the lever mentioned . This valve The covers the mouth of a bent tube , which passes down into the fire box . spring balance is set at the pressure ...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science ..., Том 5 Повний перегляд - 1854 |
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Сторінка xvi - ... other plants, adapted to the latitude and climate of the State of Maryland, and cause to be carefully noticed upon the records of said institution the character of said experiments, the kind of soil upon which they were undertaken, the system of cultivation adopted, the state of the atmosphere and...
Сторінка 260 - ... wrought into the forms and shapes required, provided that we increase the size and power of our machinery to the extent necessary to deal with such large masses of metal. A few minutes...
Сторінка 258 - ... carbon present allows a part of the oxygen to combine with the iron, which undergoes combustion and is converted into an oxide. At the excessive temperature that the metal has now acquired, the oxide as soon as formed undergoes fusion, and forms a powerful solvent of those earthy bases that are associated with the iron ; the violent ebullition which is going on mixes most intimately the...
Сторінка 305 - Stream, the sounding from Lat. 31° 32', Long. 79° 35', depth 150 fathoms, is mentioned as " a mixture in about equal proportions of Globigerina and black sand, probably greensand, as it makes a green mark when crushed on paper.
Сторінка 400 - STRENGTH AND OTHER PROPERTIES OF METALS; Reports of Experiments on the Strength and other Properties of Metals for Cannon. With a Description of the Machines for Testing Metals, and of the Classification of Cannon in service. By Officers of the Ordnance Department, US Army. By authority of the Secretary of War. Illustrated by 25 large steel plates. Quarto . $10.00 SULLIVAN. — Protection to Native Industry. By Sir EDWARD SULLIVAN, Baronet, author of " Ten Chapters on Social Reforms.
Сторінка 144 - May, and published in the proceedings, shows that a wire of six times the length of the Varna and Balaklava wire, if of the same lateral dimensions, would give thirty-six times the retardation, and thirty-six times the slowness of action.
Сторінка 400 - Gift of the State of New York. 13034, 0. 5. Sixth annual report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York on the condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, &o.
Сторінка 395 - A communication from Professor Henry of Washington having been read, containing a proposal for the publication of a catalogue of philosophical memoirs scattered throughout the Transactions of Societies in Europe and America, with the offer of co-operation on the part of the Smithsonian Institution, to the extent of preparing and publishing in accordance with the general plan which might be adopted by the British Association, a catalogue of all the American memoirs on physical science, — the Committee...