Monthly Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy, Geology, Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and Technology, Volumen2James Samuelson, William Crookes J. Churchill and Sons., 1865 |
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... inches thick , twenty feet high , and one thousand four hundred and sixty miles long , that is , the perimeter of the triangle of which the Land's End , the North Fore- land , and Dunnet Head are the angular points ; in other words , to ...
... inches thick , twenty feet high , and one thousand four hundred and sixty miles long , that is , the perimeter of the triangle of which the Land's End , the North Fore- land , and Dunnet Head are the angular points ; in other words , to ...
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... inches and three - quarters in length -- these placed end to end , would form a straight line nearly forty - five thousand four hundred miles in length . Assuming each person on the post - office staff to be an adult male and the head ...
... inches and three - quarters in length -- these placed end to end , would form a straight line nearly forty - five thousand four hundred miles in length . Assuming each person on the post - office staff to be an adult male and the head ...
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... inches stroke , to communicate motion to the drill . An iron pipe , six inches E 2 1865. ] 51 DRAPER on Petroleum .
... inches stroke , to communicate motion to the drill . An iron pipe , six inches E 2 1865. ] 51 DRAPER on Petroleum .
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... inch and a half in diameter . The bit which forms the end of the drilling tool is three inches and a half wide . After it has perforated the rock five or six feet , it is re- placed by a " rammer , " a cylindrical tool four and a half ...
... inch and a half in diameter . The bit which forms the end of the drilling tool is three inches and a half wide . After it has perforated the rock five or six feet , it is re- placed by a " rammer , " a cylindrical tool four and a half ...
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... at the same depth . Besides , the drill , as it enters the oil cavity , sinks , variously , from four or five inches to as many feet , sometimes sticking fast as if between the oblique sides of a narrow 54 [ Jan. , Original Articles .
... at the same depth . Besides , the drill , as it enters the oil cavity , sinks , variously , from four or five inches to as many feet , sometimes sticking fast as if between the oblique sides of a narrow 54 [ Jan. , Original Articles .
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Página 365 - Results of Meteorological Observations made under the direction of the United States Patent Office and the Smithsonian Institution, from the year 1854 to 1859, inclusive, being a Report of the Commissioner of Patents made at the first session of the 36th Congress.
Página 543 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it...
Página 543 - So that, having a way to make my vessels so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high. One vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water...
Página 543 - One vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water ; and a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that, one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Página 318 - These nebulae are shown by the prism to be enormous gaseous systems ; and the conjecture appears probable that their apparent permanence of general form is maintained by the continual motions of these denser portions which the telescope reveals as lucid points.