The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1872 |
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Pàgina 3
... scientific services in the improvement of Submarine Telegraphy , and in connexion with the laying of the Atlantic telegraphic cable , he received in 1866 the honour of knighthood . Sir William was born at Belfast in 1824. His father ...
... scientific services in the improvement of Submarine Telegraphy , and in connexion with the laying of the Atlantic telegraphic cable , he received in 1866 the honour of knighthood . Sir William was born at Belfast in 1824. His father ...
Pàgina 12
... scientific gentlemen were on board the Peshawur , and her performances gave great satisfaction . 66 THE NEW SEVEN - POUNDER STAR SHELL . 99 THE Star Shell for the 7 - pounder rifled muzzle - loading " moun- tain gun " is constructed in ...
... scientific gentlemen were on board the Peshawur , and her performances gave great satisfaction . 66 THE NEW SEVEN - POUNDER STAR SHELL . 99 THE Star Shell for the 7 - pounder rifled muzzle - loading " moun- tain gun " is constructed in ...
Pàgina 19
... Scientific American . The opening of the Mont Cenis tunnel will no doubt give an impulse to the construction of other tunnels through mountain ranges ; and it becomes important to review the different expe- dients for boring tunnels ...
... Scientific American . The opening of the Mont Cenis tunnel will no doubt give an impulse to the construction of other tunnels through mountain ranges ; and it becomes important to review the different expe- dients for boring tunnels ...
Pàgina 43
... by the advice and assistance of Professor Faraday , the scientific adviser of the Trinity House , and his successor , Professor A fog - bell Tyndall . The optical apparatus was designed by Mr. James MECHANICAL AND USEFUL ARTS . 43.
... by the advice and assistance of Professor Faraday , the scientific adviser of the Trinity House , and his successor , Professor A fog - bell Tyndall . The optical apparatus was designed by Mr. James MECHANICAL AND USEFUL ARTS . 43.
Pàgina 89
... by Mr. Snow Harris many years ago afford a mode of connexion much safer and more perfect . - Letter to the Times . GREAT BALLOON JOURNEY . AN interesting scientific communication has been MECHANICAL AND USEFUL ARTS . 89.
... by Mr. Snow Harris many years ago afford a mode of connexion much safer and more perfect . - Letter to the Times . GREAT BALLOON JOURNEY . AN interesting scientific communication has been MECHANICAL AND USEFUL ARTS . 89.
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Pàgina 119 - The hypothesis that life originated on this earth through moss-grown fragments from the ruins of another world may seem wild and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.
Pàgina 119 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Pàgina 119 - ... we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seedbearing meteoric stones moving about through space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation.