Animal Locomotion: Or, Walking, Swimming, and Flying, with a Dissertation on AëronauticsH. S. King & Company, 1873 - 264 стор. |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-5 із 84
Сторінка vi
... action , etc. , Muscular cycles . Centripetal and centrifugal movements of Muscles arranged in longitu- muscles ; muscular waves . dinal , transverse , and oblique spiral lines , The bones of the extremities twisted and spiral , Muscles ...
... action , etc. , Muscular cycles . Centripetal and centrifugal movements of Muscles arranged in longitu- muscles ; muscular waves . dinal , transverse , and oblique spiral lines , The bones of the extremities twisted and spiral , Muscles ...
Сторінка vii
... action of the wings , PAGE 66 74 78 89 90 92 98 PROGRESSION IN OR THROUGH THE AIR . The wing a lever of the third order , 103 Weight necessary to flight , 110 • Weight contributes to horizontal flight , 112 Weight , momentum and power ...
... action of the wings , PAGE 66 74 78 89 90 92 98 PROGRESSION IN OR THROUGH THE AIR . The wing a lever of the third order , 103 Weight necessary to flight , 110 • Weight contributes to horizontal flight , 112 Weight , momentum and power ...
Сторінка viii
... action of elastic ligaments ; the nature and position of said ligaments in the Pheasant , Snipe , Crested Crane , Swan , etc. , 190 191 The elastic ligaments more highly differentiated in wings which vibrate viii CONTENTS .
... action of elastic ligaments ; the nature and position of said ligaments in the Pheasant , Snipe , Crested Crane , Swan , etc. , 190 191 The elastic ligaments more highly differentiated in wings which vibrate viii CONTENTS .
Сторінка x
... wing as a propeller , 256 A new form of aerial screw , 256 The aerial wave screw operates upon water , 257 The sculling action of the wing , 231 CONCLUDING REMARKS , 258 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . The Engravings are , with few. X CONTENTS .
... wing as a propeller , 256 A new form of aerial screw , 256 The aerial wave screw operates upon water , 257 The sculling action of the wing , 231 CONCLUDING REMARKS , 258 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . The Engravings are , with few. X CONTENTS .
Сторінка xiii
... action of the wing , 228 The sculling action of the wing as seen in the bird , The artificial wave wing of the Author , 231 • 237 Do. do . with driving apparatus , 239 Various forms of artificial wings by the Author , 241 The compound ...
... action of the wing , 228 The sculling action of the wing as seen in the bird , The artificial wave wing of the Author , 231 • 237 Do. do . with driving apparatus , 239 Various forms of artificial wings by the Author , 241 The compound ...
Інші видання - Показати все
Animal Locomotion: Or, Walking, Swimming, and Flying, with a Dissertation on ... James Bell Pettigrew Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2016 |
Загальні терміни та фрази
action aërial albatross angle animals arms and legs arrangement artificial wave artificial wing ascends backwards ball-and-socket joint bat and bird biped blades body bones Borelli Compare with fig concave convex Crown 8vo depressed described downward dugong elastic ligaments elbow-joint elevating and propelling ellipse elytra extended feet fins fish flexed flexible flexion flight flying foot force gannet glide hind horizontal direction humerus inclined planes increased insect wing joint kite less lever limbs locomotion long axis manner Marey motion move movements muscles muscular muscular system natural wing nervures oblique oscillate ostrich pectoral fins pinion porpoise portion position posterior margin posterior or thin produced quadruped rapid remarkable resistance right arm root rotation sail screw sea-bear shoulder-joint side speed spiral swimming tail thick margin tion travelling surfaces trunk twisting universal joint upward direction upwards and forwards velocity vertical vibrate walking waved track weight wing descends
Популярні уривки
Сторінка 6 - FIRST BOOK OF BOTANY. Designed to Cultivate the Observing Powers of Children. With 300 Engravings, New and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo.
Сторінка 17 - Medical Guide for Anglo-Indians. Being a Compendium of Advice to Europeans in India, relating to the Preservation and Regulation of Health. With a Supplement on the Management of Children in India.
Сторінка 29 - VYNER (Lady Mary). Every day a Portion. Adapted from the Bible and the Prayer Book, for the Private Devotions of those living in Widowhood.
Сторінка 32 - Memoriam." (Dedicated by Permission to the Poet-Laureate.) Fcap. 8vo, 2s. The Education of the Human Race. Translated from the German of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Fcap.
Сторінка 18 - FRASER (Donald). Exchange Tables of Sterling and Indian Rupee Currency, upon a new and extended system, embracing Values from One Farthing to One Hundred Thousand Pounds, and at Rates progressing, in Sixteenths of a Penny, from is.
Сторінка 15 - WARTENSLEBEN (Count H. von). The Operations of the South Army in January and February, 1871. Compiled from the Official War Documents of the Head-quarters of the Southern Army. Translated by Colonel CH von Wright. With Maps. Demy 8vo.
Сторінка 33 - MA The Late Rev. FW Robertson, MA, Life and Letters of. Edited by. I. Uniform with the Sermons.
Сторінка 23 - The author of these verses has written a very touching story of the human heart in the story he tells with such pathos and power, of an affection cherished so long and so secretly. . . . It is not the least merit of these pages that they are everywhere illumined with moral and religious sentiment, suggested, not paraded, of the brightest, purest character.
Сторінка 32 - The Hymn Book consists of Three Parts :— I. For Public Worship. — II. For Family and Private Worship. —III. For Children. *** Published in various forms and prices, the latter ranging from %d.
Сторінка 3 - The Mishmee Hills : an Account of a Journey made in an Attempt to Penetrate Thibet from Assam, to open New Routes for Commerce. Second Edition. With Four Illustrations and Map. Post 8vo. Cloth, price IDS. 6d. Cornhill Library of Fiction (The). Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 3$ . 6d. per volume. Half-a-Dozen Daughters.