The Mechanic's Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal and Gazette, Band 44

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Robertson, 1846
 

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Seite 309 - If a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts; the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square of the line between the points of section, is equal to the square of half the line.
Seite 485 - If two straight lines meeting one another be parallel to two others that meet one another, though not in the same plane with the first two ; the first two and the other two shall contain equal angles.
Seite 429 - Pleas, calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside...
Seite 496 - ... along with from one to three per cent, of their weight of carburet of manganese ; and exposing the crucible to the proper heat for melting the materials which are, when fluid, to be poured into an ingot mould in the usual manner...
Seite 124 - The following is the order in which the several divisions of the subject treated of in this section of the author's researches in electricity, succeed one another: — 1. Apparatus required. 2. Action of magnets on heavy glass. 3. Action of magnets on other substances acting magnetically on light. 4. Action of magnets on the metals generally. 5. Action of magnets on the magnetic metals and their compounds. 6. Action of magnets on air and gases. 7. General considerations. In giving an account of the...
Seite 156 - That, in order to complete the general chain of narrow gauge communication from the north of England to the southern coast, any suitable measure should be promoted to form a narrow gauge link from Oxford to Reading, and thence to Basingstoke, or by any shorter route connecting the proposed Rugby and Oxford line with the South- Western Railway.
Seite 136 - If it fall obliquely, it will be reflected obliquely in the opposite direction ; and in all cases the angle of incidence will be equal to the angle of reflection. This is the fundamental law of Catoptrics, or reflected light.
Seite 303 - Jones v. Pearce, and I recollect that those cases proceeded on the ground of the former machines being, in truth, mere experiments, which altogether failed. The public use and exercise of an invention, means a use and exercise in public, not by the public.
Seite 303 - with respect to this objection, the question is somewhat new*. Some things are obvious as soon as they are made public ; of others, the scientific world may possess itself by analysis ; some inventions almost baffle discovery. But to entitle a man to a patent, the invention must be new to the world.
Seite 380 - ... current of blood through the umbilical vein and the more likely will the foetus be to suffer from their effects. From these observations I think we are justified in coming to the conclusion, that the administration of ergot of rye to a woman in labor is attended with danger to the child, whenever a time sufficient for the absorption and transmission of its noxious properties elapses before the child is born ; and from the cases above stated I am inclined to place two hours as the limit of safety...

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