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... prove the best for their colonies . A commission of English engi- neers are now investigating our system with a view to the rail- ways of India . The brake power on several of the French and Spanish railways has been greatly increased ...
... prove the best for their colonies . A commission of English engi- neers are now investigating our system with a view to the rail- ways of India . The brake power on several of the French and Spanish railways has been greatly increased ...
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... prove more safe and economical than any solid rail , for , if the same durability of track can be obtained with a steel cap as with an all - steel rail , the first cost will be greatly decreased . A rail made in two or three continuous ...
... prove more safe and economical than any solid rail , for , if the same durability of track can be obtained with a steel cap as with an all - steel rail , the first cost will be greatly decreased . A rail made in two or three continuous ...
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... proved to be complex . The limits of chemistry he defines in these words : " The ex- isting chemistry is , therefore , all powerful in the circle of mineral nature , even when its processes are carried on in the heart of the tissues of ...
... proved to be complex . The limits of chemistry he defines in these words : " The ex- isting chemistry is , therefore , all powerful in the circle of mineral nature , even when its processes are carried on in the heart of the tissues of ...
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... proved that there is a band of organisms encircling the globe at the bottom of the ocean , —these organisms , too , resembling those found in the immensely remote cretaceous epoch . The amœba , described on p . 294 , seems to be one of ...
... proved that there is a band of organisms encircling the globe at the bottom of the ocean , —these organisms , too , resembling those found in the immensely remote cretaceous epoch . The amœba , described on p . 294 , seems to be one of ...
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... proved to be superfluous , and they are now habitually seen with their actual forms . Nor is our power of observing them restricted to those which are so situated that they are seen by projection outside the sun's limb ; such is the ...
... proved to be superfluous , and they are now habitually seen with their actual forms . Nor is our power of observing them restricted to those which are so situated that they are seen by projection outside the sun's limb ; such is the ...
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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 269 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Сторінка i - ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY ; or, Year Book of Facts in Science and Art, exhibiting the most important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology, Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Antiquities, etc.
Сторінка 136 - It consists in subjecting the vapours of volatile liquids to the action of concentrated sunlight, or to the concentrated beam of the electric light.