The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtCharles W. Vincent, James Mason Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1854 |
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... glass , with its fairy forms and mighty morals - England's original architecture , adopted by England's cousins and ... glass is one - eighth of an inch thick . The enamel , with which the whole of it is covered , is laid upon the glass ...
... glass , with its fairy forms and mighty morals - England's original architecture , adopted by England's cousins and ... glass is one - eighth of an inch thick . The enamel , with which the whole of it is covered , is laid upon the glass ...
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... glass itself . It produces an effect similar to that of ground glass , being translucent but not transparent . The sun's rays , diffused by passing through it , yield an agreeable light , and are deprived of that intensity of heat and ...
... glass itself . It produces an effect similar to that of ground glass , being translucent but not transparent . The sun's rays , diffused by passing through it , yield an agreeable light , and are deprived of that intensity of heat and ...
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... glass , the quality of which tends rather to obstruct than to facilitate the passage of light . Mr. Clark's plan - and in this may be said to consist the originality and real utility of his invention - is to have the lighthouse fixed ...
... glass , the quality of which tends rather to obstruct than to facilitate the passage of light . Mr. Clark's plan - and in this may be said to consist the originality and real utility of his invention - is to have the lighthouse fixed ...
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... glass windows , which can be put in when required . They are always in use during the wet and cold seasons , so that the cabins are then made as warm as if the sides were planked . The Flats are steered forward by a wheel , the tiller ...
... glass windows , which can be put in when required . They are always in use during the wet and cold seasons , so that the cabins are then made as warm as if the sides were planked . The Flats are steered forward by a wheel , the tiller ...
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... glasses , one in the middle opposite the eyes , and the others on the sides . To the waist - belt of the dress are adapted several leaden weights , heavy enough to act as an equilibrium to the water . The socks are composed of leaden ...
... glasses , one in the middle opposite the eyes , and the others on the sides . To the waist - belt of the dress are adapted several leaden weights , heavy enough to act as an equilibrium to the water . The socks are composed of leaden ...
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194 페이지 - But the most valuable effect of this test-apparatus (which was afterwards made more perfect and independent of the table) is the corrective power it possesses over the mind of the table-turner. As soon as the index is placed before the most earnest, and they perceive — as in my presence they have always done — that it tells truly whether they are pressing downwards only or obliquely, then all effects of table-turning cease, even though the parties persevere, earnestly desiring motion, till they...
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70 페이지 - ... and the sheet of iron again immersed in the bath. To coat Iron with Silver. — The metal must be first amalgamated with mercury by the following process : 12 parts of mercury, 1 of zinc, 2 of sulphate of iron, 2 of muriatic acid, and 12 of water are mixed together, and heated in an open vessel to about 200° Fah.