The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideA. et C. Black, 1879 - 856 pages |
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... measuring 75 feet by 57 , and built in white limestone , have been excavated . A conspicuous building has been erected close to the water , from the fragments of the Tell Hûm syna- gogue . Since the 4th century Tell Hûm has been pointed ...
... measuring 75 feet by 57 , and built in white limestone , have been excavated . A conspicuous building has been erected close to the water , from the fragments of the Tell Hûm syna- gogue . Since the 4th century Tell Hûm has been pointed ...
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... measurement , and more than of the overflowing audiences which they attracted . His fifty years later turned it to account in the construction of ingenious invention of the proportional compasses - an an astronomical clock . Up to this ...
... measurement , and more than of the overflowing audiences which they attracted . His fifty years later turned it to account in the construction of ingenious invention of the proportional compasses - an an astronomical clock . Up to this ...
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... measuring currents of electricity , wherein advantage is taken of the force exerted by such currents on movable ... measured is sent round the bobbin , so that each of the magnets is repelled . Weights are put into the left - hand ...
... measuring currents of electricity , wherein advantage is taken of the force exerted by such currents on movable ... measured is sent round the bobbin , so that each of the magnets is repelled . Weights are put into the left - hand ...
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... measuring resistances with the Wheatstone's bridge . This principle has been carried farthest in the galvanometers of Sir William Thomson , in some of which the needle with all its appurtenances weighs little over a grain . In some ...
... measuring resistances with the Wheatstone's bridge . This principle has been carried farthest in the galvanometers of Sir William Thomson , in some of which the needle with all its appurtenances weighs little over a grain . In some ...
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... measured in any way , the instrument may be used as a sine compass . The current is applied and the multiplier ... measuring currents , there must be some law con- necting the indications of the needle with the strength of the current in ...
... measured in any way , the instrument may be used as a sine compass . The current is applied and the multiplier ... measuring currents , there must be some law con- necting the indications of the needle with the strength of the current in ...
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