 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1843 - 538 Seiten
...cliff was from 60 to 70 feet. It was calculated that the powder, before it could find a vent, mu»t move 100,000 yards of chalk, or 200,000 tons. It was...attached wires which communicated at the end of the charge( by means of a very fine wire of platina, which the electric fluid, as it passed over it, made... | |
 | 1843 - 444 Seiten
...yards of chalk, or 200,000 tons. It was also confidently expected that it would move 1,000,000 tons. The following preparations were made to ignite this...batteries were erected. Each battery consisted of eighteen Daniel's cylinders, and two common batteries of twenty plates each. To these batteries were... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1844 - 512 Seiten
...the powder, before it could find a vent, must move 100,000 yards of chalk, or 200,000 tons. It was confidently expected that it would move one million....cliff a wooden shed was constructed, in which three galvanic batteries were erected. Each battery consisted of 18 Daniell's cylinders, and two common batteries... | |
 | Frederick Collier Bakewell - 1853 - 210 Seiten
...charges from the face of the • Reports of the Juries, class xp 283. cliff was about seventy feet. At the back of the cliff a wooden shed was constructed in which three voltaic batteries were arranged. Each combined battery consisted of eighteen of Daniell's cells and... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1855 - 574 Seiten
...the powder, before it could find a vent, must move 100,000 yards of chalk, or 200,000 tons. It was confidently expected that it would move one million....cliff a wooden shed was constructed, in which three galvanic batteries were erected. Each battery consisted of 18 Daniell's cylinders, and two common batteries... | |
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It was calculated that the powder, before it could find a vent, mu»t move 100,000 yards of chalk, or 200,000 tons. It was also confidently expected that it would move one million. " The following preparations were made to ignite this enormous quantity... 