Elementary Manual on Steam and the Steam Engine

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C. Griffin, 1897 - 290 Seiten

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Seite 51 - It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.
Seite 7 - Connection between Toxic Action and Chemical Composition — Life Tests — General Method of Procedure — The Spectroscope — Examination of Blood and Blood Stains. III. — Poisonous Gases. IV. — Acids and Alkalies. V. — More or less Volatile Poisonous Substances. VI. — Alkaloids and Poisonous Vegetable Principles. VII. — Poisons derived from Living or Dead Animal Substances. VIII. — The Oxalic Acid Group. IX. — Inorganic Poisons. Appendix : Treatment, by Antidotes or otherwise, of...
Seite 50 - It goes almost without saying that a Handbook of this subject will be in time one of the most generally useful works for the library or the desk.
Seite 38 - Typical Metallurgical Processes.— The Micro-Structure of Metals and Alloys. — Economic Considerations. " No English text-book at all approaches this in the COMPLETENESS with which the most modern views on the subject are dealt with. Professor Austen's volume will be INVALUABLE, not only to the student, but also to those whose knowledge of the art is far advanced.
Seite 29 - MUNRO (JMH, D.Sc., Professor of Chemistry, Downton College of Agriculture) : AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY AND ANALYSIS: A PRACTICAL HAND-BOOK for the Use of Agricultural Students.
Seite 4 - By S. ANGLIN, CE, Master of Engineering, Royal University of Ireland, late Whitworth Scholar, &c.
Seite 31 - The value of this work is almost inestimable. There can be no question that the amount of time and labour bestowed on it is enormous. . . . There is certainly no Metallurgical Treatise in the language calculated to prove of such general utility.
Seite 44 - SMITH'S CONVERSION-TABLES form the most unique and comprehensive collection ever placed before the profession. By their use much time and labour will be saved, and the chances of error in calculation diminished.
Seite 11 - SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS : A Guide to the Construction of Works for the Prevention of the Pollution by Sewage of Rivers and Estuaries. BY W. SANTO CRIMP, M.lNST.CE. FGS, Late Assistant-Engineer, London County Council "Probably the MOST COMPLETE AND REST TREATISE on the subject which has appeared in our language.
Seite 40 - Adapted for all who are interested in the Gold Mining Industry, being free from technicalities as far as possible, but is more particularly of value to those engaged in the Industry."— Cape Timet.

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