The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1862 |
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Pàgina 11
... object being to describe the Buildings which have been pro- vided for this magnificent display . We all well remember the difficulties which beset the provision of the Building for the Exhibition of 1851 : how a most unsightly design ...
... object being to describe the Buildings which have been pro- vided for this magnificent display . We all well remember the difficulties which beset the provision of the Building for the Exhibition of 1851 : how a most unsightly design ...
Pàgina 22
... object large enough to cover his own body , load and fire nine times a minute without hindrance and without exposing himself to the enemy in the slightest degree . There is also another material advantage to be noticed , and that is the ...
... object large enough to cover his own body , load and fire nine times a minute without hindrance and without exposing himself to the enemy in the slightest degree . There is also another material advantage to be noticed , and that is the ...
Pàgina 35
... object fired at if within reasonable distance , whereas a wooden ship would fire the same guns with a certainty of not hitting the object . In fact , it would be impossible to say how wide the shot - from , say , the Duncan's 100 ...
... object fired at if within reasonable distance , whereas a wooden ship would fire the same guns with a certainty of not hitting the object . In fact , it would be impossible to say how wide the shot - from , say , the Duncan's 100 ...
Pàgina 39
... object of the author is to introduce a method for preventing the penetration of shot and shell into the sides of a ship . The solid iron plate on a coating of timber he considers to be one of the worst plans that can be conceived . The ...
... object of the author is to introduce a method for preventing the penetration of shot and shell into the sides of a ship . The solid iron plate on a coating of timber he considers to be one of the worst plans that can be conceived . The ...
Pàgina 45
... object , however , was not so much to stop an enemy's shot as to have his plates at such an angle as would give them a different direction , which is another thing altogether . For this purpose he determined that the armour should not ...
... object , however , was not so much to stop an enemy's shot as to have his plates at such an angle as would give them a different direction , which is another thing altogether . For this purpose he determined that the armour should not ...
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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.