The Mechanic's Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal and Gazette, Band 37Robertson, 1842 |
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... fact will be more clearly shown by re- ference to steamers . The usual calculation for a timber - built steamer is , that the expense of repairs will , in ten or twelve years , have equalled the first cost . In a well - built iron ...
... fact will be more clearly shown by re- ference to steamers . The usual calculation for a timber - built steamer is , that the expense of repairs will , in ten or twelve years , have equalled the first cost . In a well - built iron ...
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... fact it is impossible to calculate the immense weight of fluid the ship would have to pull against . There is another important advantage to be derived from the use of these water kites when vessels are off the land in foggy or hazy ...
... fact it is impossible to calculate the immense weight of fluid the ship would have to pull against . There is another important advantage to be derived from the use of these water kites when vessels are off the land in foggy or hazy ...
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... fact , the moment an improved system of admitting air to the combustible gases from which flame is produced , is adopted . How then are we to account for these er- roneous assertions , but by assuming , 1st , That he had not witnessed ...
... fact , the moment an improved system of admitting air to the combustible gases from which flame is produced , is adopted . How then are we to account for these er- roneous assertions , but by assuming , 1st , That he had not witnessed ...
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... fact , it being well known that each of the Blackwall Railway Company's boats , excepting the Brunswick , have several times performed the distance in one hour and from two to four minutes ; and upon one occasion , it will be found upon ...
... fact , it being well known that each of the Blackwall Railway Company's boats , excepting the Brunswick , have several times performed the distance in one hour and from two to four minutes ; and upon one occasion , it will be found upon ...
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... fact , that this phenomenon was seized upon by our ob- servers in Europe , Asia , Africa , and America , reduced to determination , and printed in three weeks after the arrival of the observa- tions in England . The returns from the ...
... fact , that this phenomenon was seized upon by our ob- servers in Europe , Asia , Africa , and America , reduced to determination , and printed in three weeks after the arrival of the observa- tions in England . The returns from the ...
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Seite 369 - The Committee on Science and the Arts constituted by the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the promotion of the Mechanic Arts, to whom was referred for examination a Solar Compass, invented by WM.
Seite 588 - ... any new and original design for a bust, statue, or bas relief or composition in alto or basso relievo, or any new and original impression or ornament, or to be placed on any article of manufacture, the same being formed in marble or other material, or any new and useful pattern...
Seite 374 - An account of the waste or increase of the Land on any part of the coast of Great Britain, the nature of the Soil, the direction of the Tides, Currents, Rivers, Estuaries, &c., with the means adopted for retarding or preventing the waste of the land.
Seite 496 - When no unguent is interposed, the friction of any two surfaces (whether of quiescence or of motion) is directly proportional to the force with which they are pressed perpendicularly together ; so that for any two given surfaces of contact there is a constant ratio of the friction to the perpendicular pressure of the one surface upon the other.
Seite 466 - ... 2. On repeating this simple experiment, I find that it is necessary for the production of a good effect to use dissimilar metals ; for instance, a piece of gold or platina on a plate of copper or of silver will make a very decided image, whereas copper or silver on their respective plates...
Seite 341 - We are of opinion that if the result produced by such a combination is either a new article, or a better article, or a cheaper article to the public, than that produced before by the old method, that such combination is an invention or manufacture intended by the statute, and may well become the subject of a patent.
Seite 468 - I feel convinced that we have to do with some thermic influence, and that it will eventually be found that some purely calorific excitement produces a molecular change, or that a thermo-electric action is induced which effects some change in the polarities of the ultimate atoms of the solid.
Seite 347 - ... to the health. But as it approaches the metropolis, it becomes loaded with a quantity of filth, which renders it disgusting to the senses, and improper to be employed in the preparation of food.
Seite 588 - ... manufacture, not known or used by others before his, her, or their invention or production thereof, and prior to the time of his, her, or their application for a patent therefor, and who shall desire to obtain an exclusive property or right therein to make, use, (and sell) and vend the same, or copies of the same, to others, by them to be made, used, and sold, may make application in writing, to the Commissioner of Patents, expressing such desire : and the Commissioner, on due proceedings had,...
Seite 468 - Magazine for October 1840, I mentioned some instances in which I had copied printed paper and engravings on iodized paper by mere contact and exposure to the influence of calorific rays, or to artificial heat. I then, speculating on the probability of our being enabled by some such process as the one I then named, to copy pictures and the like, proposed the name of THERMOGRAPHY, to distinguish it from Photography.