The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, 10. köideJames Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1871 |
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... Four Parts , to form Two Volumes demy 8vo . with a Plate in Chromo- lithography , and 300 Illustrations on Wood , price 5s . each Part to Subscribers ; 7s . 6d . to Non - Subscribers . A TREATISE ON LOCALISED ELECTRISATION , AND ITS ...
... Four Parts , to form Two Volumes demy 8vo . with a Plate in Chromo- lithography , and 300 Illustrations on Wood , price 5s . each Part to Subscribers ; 7s . 6d . to Non - Subscribers . A TREATISE ON LOCALISED ELECTRISATION , AND ITS ...
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... four distinct graduating actions , so that an out TO . 1 shows J. ALDERMAN'S Patent Graduating Elastic Spinal and General Invalid Couch , can be adjusted imperceptibly to any position without being touched by the nurse , and free SAME ...
... four distinct graduating actions , so that an out TO . 1 shows J. ALDERMAN'S Patent Graduating Elastic Spinal and General Invalid Couch , can be adjusted imperceptibly to any position without being touched by the nurse , and free SAME ...
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... four times less than a vacuum range . Hutton's law assigned it to be a function of the velocity added to its square ( av + bv2 ) . Didion at a function of the velocity added to the cube ( bv + cv3 ) . Colonel Mayewski at a higher ...
... four times less than a vacuum range . Hutton's law assigned it to be a function of the velocity added to its square ( av + bv2 ) . Didion at a function of the velocity added to the cube ( bv + cv3 ) . Colonel Mayewski at a higher ...
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... four years of incessant la- bour . " ( July 23 , 1868. ) In the same page the Report further declares : " The state of our knowledge of the resistance of the air in 1865 was well expressed in Captain W. H. Noble's Report to the Ordnance ...
... four years of incessant la- bour . " ( July 23 , 1868. ) In the same page the Report further declares : " The state of our knowledge of the resistance of the air in 1865 was well expressed in Captain W. H. Noble's Report to the Ordnance ...
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... four or five beats of the clock the " signal to fire " is given , so that in about ten seconds the experiment is completed and the instrument is ready for another . The passage of the balls through the fifteen screens is distinctly ...
... four or five beats of the clock the " signal to fire " is given , so that in about ten seconds the experiment is completed and the instrument is ready for another . The passage of the balls through the fifteen screens is distinctly ...
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Page 256 - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores ; and if his fellow spake, His voice was thin, as voices from the grave ; And deep-asleep he seem'd, yet all awake, And music in his ears his beating heart did make...
Page 116 - WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 & 1862} Is allowed by upwards of 200 Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn...
Page 14 - I believe that animals have descended from at most only four or five progenitors, and plants from an equal or lesser number.
Page 256 - Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far, far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
Page 14 - Therefore I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth, have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.
Page 116 - ... its effects, is here avoided ; a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the MOC-MAIN PAD and PATENT LEVER, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the Truss (which cannot fail to fit...