Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Metallurgists, Mine Proprietors, Engineers, Shipbuilders, Scientists, Capitalists ..., Band 10Perry Fairfax Nursey Knight and Lacey, 1830 |
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... , and to lie down at a few yards distant from it , when the learned professor as- sured his hearers the lightuing would be attracted to the rod and conveyed down into the earth . 34 WATKINS AND HILL'S SELF - RE- GULATING RAIN GAUGE.
... , and to lie down at a few yards distant from it , when the learned professor as- sured his hearers the lightuing would be attracted to the rod and conveyed down into the earth . 34 WATKINS AND HILL'S SELF - RE- GULATING RAIN GAUGE.
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... earth in its orbit , - the comet being nearly in conjunc- tion with the sun . From a compa- rison of these dates , it is evident that the period of this comet is about 75 or 76 years , there being the following variations : - From 1531 ...
... earth in its orbit , - the comet being nearly in conjunc- tion with the sun . From a compa- rison of these dates , it is evident that the period of this comet is about 75 or 76 years , there being the following variations : - From 1531 ...
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... earth's orbit more than sixty times in the course of a century ; and certainly it is within the limits of chance , that some collision may occur between this comet and the earth . The con- sequence of such an event would , ac- cording ...
... earth's orbit more than sixty times in the course of a century ; and certainly it is within the limits of chance , that some collision may occur between this comet and the earth . The con- sequence of such an event would , ac- cording ...
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... earth's surface , —such as Dhawala - giri , the bigbest mountain of the Himalayan chain , to the north of Hindostan . " Should a comet approach so near the earth as to be more at- tracted by it than by the sun , the course of its ...
... earth's surface , —such as Dhawala - giri , the bigbest mountain of the Himalayan chain , to the north of Hindostan . " Should a comet approach so near the earth as to be more at- tracted by it than by the sun , the course of its ...
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... earth's path as it did , had the earth been in that part of its orbit at the time , the comet would have had at least as much influence on our sphere as the moon now has . Whiston was not so moderate in his anticipations ; he thought ...
... earth's path as it did , had the earth been in that part of its orbit at the time , the comet would have had at least as much influence on our sphere as the moon now has . Whiston was not so moderate in his anticipations ; he thought ...
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Seite 31 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Seite 122 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Seite 302 - Lead, then," said Eve. He, leading, swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight, To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
Seite 275 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declared how much he knew; 'Twas certain he could write and...
Seite 326 - Timekeepers are used at Sea, the apparent Time deduced from an Altitude of the Sun must be corrected by the Equation of Time, and the mean Time found compared with that...
Seite 27 - His peroration is worth recalling; he said: "it was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble.
Seite 174 - The new and improved method of applying iron in the sheathing of ships and other vessels, and of apply.ing iron bolts, spikes, nails, pintals, braces and other fastenings used in the construction of ships and other vessels...
Seite 158 - In the nineteenth century the transmutation of metals will be generally known and practised. Every Chemist and every Artist will make gold', Kitchen utensils will be of silver, and even gold, which will contribute more than any thing else to prolong life, poisoned at present by the oxyds of copper, lead, and iron, which we daily swallow with our food.
Seite 78 - It is obvious that water receiving so large a proportion of foreign matters, as we know find their way into the Thames, and so far impure as to destroy fish, cannot, even when clarified by filtration, be pronounced entirely free from the suspicion of general insalubrity.
Seite 46 - No. 10, are rendered magnetic, and stuck at equal distances, into a thin circular piece of cork, of three inches diameter ; this circle is affixed by a copper wire to a light bar of wood, five inches long, having at its opposite extremity a small weight equal to the weight of the needles. In the centre of the bar is an agate cup, which receives a fine steel point, on which the instrument traverses.