The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1872 |
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Pàgina 9
... into nine water - tight compartments , and horizontally into three flats , the lowest of which is occupied by empty air - tight spaces . The turret revolves by steam in thirty seconds , or by hand in three minutes . There is a pilot - PAGE.
... into nine water - tight compartments , and horizontally into three flats , the lowest of which is occupied by empty air - tight spaces . The turret revolves by steam in thirty seconds , or by hand in three minutes . There is a pilot - PAGE.
Pàgina 12
... STEAM - SHIP , " PESHAWUR . " 99 THE Peninsular and Oriental Company's new screw steam - ship Peshawur , commanded by Captain C. A. White , in her official trial at the measured mile in Stokes Bay , under the adverse in- fluence of a ...
... STEAM - SHIP , " PESHAWUR . " 99 THE Peninsular and Oriental Company's new screw steam - ship Peshawur , commanded by Captain C. A. White , in her official trial at the measured mile in Stokes Bay , under the adverse in- fluence of a ...
Pàgina 18
... steam- ships for the East via Suez Canal . Mont Cenis lies between " St. Jean de Maurienne , " in Savoy , and " Susa , " in Piedmont , consisting of a high table - land 7,000 ft . high , rising abruptly to a peak nearly 12,000 ft . high ...
... steam- ships for the East via Suez Canal . Mont Cenis lies between " St. Jean de Maurienne , " in Savoy , and " Susa , " in Piedmont , consisting of a high table - land 7,000 ft . high , rising abruptly to a peak nearly 12,000 ft . high ...
Pàgina 23
... steam . It is capable of discharging 100,000 cubic feet of air per minute . The south end of the tunnel is provided with a lateral air - shaft , which opens in the grass - plot of the City Hall Park . The air current thus traverses ...
... steam . It is capable of discharging 100,000 cubic feet of air per minute . The south end of the tunnel is provided with a lateral air - shaft , which opens in the grass - plot of the City Hall Park . The air current thus traverses ...
Pàgina 26
... steam power within the precincts of the establishment . The power is to be supplied from a boiler situated at a distance of several hundred yards from the powder stores . Stimulated by the rapidly increasing demands not only of our ...
... steam power within the precincts of the establishment . The power is to be supplied from a boiler situated at a distance of several hundred yards from the powder stores . Stimulated by the rapidly increasing demands not only of our ...
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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.