The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1862 |
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... Report on the Comparative Strength and other Properties of Cast - iron , manufactured by the Hot and Cold Blast respectively ; in which were employed irons of fifty sorts . * In 1840 , Mr. Fairbairn read to the Association a paper on ...
... Report on the Comparative Strength and other Properties of Cast - iron , manufactured by the Hot and Cold Blast respectively ; in which were employed irons of fifty sorts . * In 1840 , Mr. Fairbairn read to the Association a paper on ...
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... Report on the Comparative Strength and other Properties of Cast - iron , manufactured by the Hot and Cold Blast respectively ; in which were employed irons of fifty sorts . * In 1840 , Mr. Fairbairn read to the Association a paper on ...
... Report on the Comparative Strength and other Properties of Cast - iron , manufactured by the Hot and Cold Blast respectively ; in which were employed irons of fifty sorts . * In 1840 , Mr. Fairbairn read to the Association a paper on ...
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... Report on the Comparative Strength and other Properties of Cast - iron , manufactured by the Hot and Cold Blast respectively ; in which were employed irons of fifty sorts . * In 1840 , Mr. Fairbairn read to the Association a paper on ...
... Report on the Comparative Strength and other Properties of Cast - iron , manufactured by the Hot and Cold Blast respectively ; in which were employed irons of fifty sorts . * In 1840 , Mr. Fairbairn read to the Association a paper on ...
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... report upon the injury , and they gave it as their opinion that it had been caused by the gun being fired with the projectile away from the powder , which will infallibly injure any gun . It should be explained that the inner tube I ...
... report upon the injury , and they gave it as their opinion that it had been caused by the gun being fired with the projectile away from the powder , which will infallibly injure any gun . It should be explained that the inner tube I ...
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... report would be heard . Unfortunately the eager spectators were disap- pointed , for though the time - ball fell there was neither flash nor sound . In less than a quarter of an hour a messenger arrived from the Castle to announce that ...
... report would be heard . Unfortunately the eager spectators were disap- pointed , for though the time - ball fell there was neither flash nor sound . In less than a quarter of an hour a messenger arrived from the Castle to announce that ...
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