The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1862 |
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Pàgina 11
... Colours , and Drawings ; Sculpture , Models , Die - sinking , and Intaglios ; and Engravings and Etchings . Hence , the coming Exhibition is more properly termed " of Works of Industry and Art . " We shall here say no more of the scope ...
... Colours , and Drawings ; Sculpture , Models , Die - sinking , and Intaglios ; and Engravings and Etchings . Hence , the coming Exhibition is more properly termed " of Works of Industry and Art . " We shall here say no more of the scope ...
Pàgina 15
... colour , strength , and richness . Among the manufactured specimens , the furniture brocades turned out by the looms of Piedmont and Lom- bardy , and some of those sent from Naples , are of a splendour , both for design and quality ...
... colour , strength , and richness . Among the manufactured specimens , the furniture brocades turned out by the looms of Piedmont and Lom- bardy , and some of those sent from Naples , are of a splendour , both for design and quality ...
Pàgina 66
... coloured disc is pushed out , which shows in what carriage or compartment the alarm has been given . Once in motion , the apparatus cannot be stopped , except by the guard . Thus a traveller who might be induced to play a practical joke ...
... coloured disc is pushed out , which shows in what carriage or compartment the alarm has been given . Once in motion , the apparatus cannot be stopped , except by the guard . Thus a traveller who might be induced to play a practical joke ...
Pàgina 68
... coloured iron and a thousand double lamps , one every thirty - five yards , will give a cheerful aspect to this ocean roadway , and render it an agreeable contrast to the noise , and damp , and darkness of an ordinary tunnel , or even ...
... coloured iron and a thousand double lamps , one every thirty - five yards , will give a cheerful aspect to this ocean roadway , and render it an agreeable contrast to the noise , and damp , and darkness of an ordinary tunnel , or even ...
Pàgina 81
... coloured flames on the surface of newly run steel would afford the means of detecting the presence of metals and other bodies by the new method of spectrum analysis . - Mechanics ' Magazine . MANUFACTURE OF STEEL . THE ordinary process ...
... coloured flames on the surface of newly run steel would afford the means of detecting the presence of metals and other bodies by the new method of spectrum analysis . - Mechanics ' Magazine . MANUFACTURE OF STEEL . THE ordinary process ...
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Pàgina 243 - In the front of the crown, and in the centre of a diamond Maltese cross, is the famous ruby, said to have been given to Edward, Prince of Wales, son of...
Pàgina 287 - Tables for Land Valuers. THE LAND VALUER'S BEST ASSISTANT: being Tables, on a very much improved Plan, for Calculating the Value of Estates. With Tables for reducing Scotch, Irish, and Provincial Customary Acres to Statute Measure, &c. By R. HUDSON, CE New Edition, royal 32mo, leather, gilt edges, elastic band, 4^.
Pàgina 119 - It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life without a creating and overruling power. The author's object was to lay before the Section an application of these general views to the discovery of probable limits to the periods of tune, past and future, during which the sun can be reckoned on as a source of heat and light.
Pàgina 285 - Maury's book will not hereafter be classed with the works of the great men who have taken the lead in extending and improving knowledge and art ; his book displays in a remarkable degree, like the ' Advancement of Learning,' and the ' Natural History* of Buffon, profound research and magnificent imagination.
Pàgina 243 - From the upper part of the arches are suspended four large pendant pear-shaped pearls, with rose diamond caps, containing twelve rose diamonds, and stems containing twenty-four very small rose diamonds. Above the arch stands the mound, containing in the lower hemisphere 304 brilliants, and in the upper 244 brilliants ; the zone and arc being composed of thirty-three rose diamonds.
Pàgina 285 - The Physical Geography of the Sea and its Meteorology ; or, the Economy of the Sea and its Adaptations, its Salts, its Waters, its Climates, its Inhabitants, and whatever there may be of general interest in its Commercial Uses or Industrial Pursuits.