The Boy's Playbook of Science: Including the Various Manipulations and Arrangements of Chemical and Philosophical Apparatus Required for the Successful Performance of Scientific Experiments ...Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860 - 440 Seiten |
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Seite 353 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Seite 138 - An Account of a Method of Copying Paintings upon Glass, and of making Profiles by the Agency of Light upon Nitrate of Silver; with Observations by H. Davy.
Seite 427 - ... in common fire-engines, and which I call the steam-vessel, must, during the whole time the engine is at work, be kept as hot as the steam -that enters it ; first, by enclosing it in a case of wood, or any other materials that transmit heat slowly ; secondly, by surrounding it with steam or other heated bodies...
Seite 138 - I suppose it is one of your big engines.' 'But what drives the engine?" ' Oh, very likely a canny Newcastle driver.' 'What do you say to the light of the sun ?' ' How can that be ?' asked the doctor.
Seite 383 - Ihe diffusion of heat through water does not take place like that of solids, but is effected by the motion of the particles of the water. When heat is applied to the bottom of a vessel containing water, such as an inverted glass shade, the first effect is to expand the layer of water which is...
Seite 427 - I intend, in many cases, to employ the expansive force of steam to press on the pistons, or whatever may be used instead of them, in the same manner in which the pressure of the atmosphere is now employed in common fire engines.
Seite 353 - Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Seite 138 - What do you say to the light of the sun ? ' ' How can that be ? ' asked the doctor. ' It is nothing else,' said the engineer : ' it is light bottled up in the earth for tens of thousands of years, — light, absorbed by plants and vegetables, being necessary for the condensation of carbon during the process of their growth, if it be...
Seite 92 - I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. Having got about three or four times as much as the bulk of my materials, I admitted water to it, and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprised me more than I can well express was that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame...
Seite 353 - So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate...