The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 25. köideThomas Spencer Baynes Werner Company, 1895 |
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... course still more when they are concave , the points of the teeth always wear a hole in the pallets at the extremity of their usual swing , and the motion is obviously easier and therefore better when the pallets are made convex ; in ...
... course still more when they are concave , the points of the teeth always wear a hole in the pallets at the extremity of their usual swing , and the motion is obviously easier and therefore better when the pallets are made convex ; in ...
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... course circle is always the kind of curve used ) ; and QP the curve which is traced out by any point P in the gene- rating circle GAP , as it rolls in the pitch circle AQX ; and again let RP be the curve traced by the point P , as the ...
... course circle is always the kind of curve used ) ; and QP the curve which is traced out by any point P in the gene- rating circle GAP , as it rolls in the pitch circle AQX ; and again let RP be the curve traced by the point P , as the ...
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... course , but for the usual disposition of workmen to deviate from your plans , apparently for the mere pleasure of doing wrong . It is astonishing how , by continually making one machine after another , with a little deviation each time ...
... course , but for the usual disposition of workmen to deviate from your plans , apparently for the mere pleasure of doing wrong . It is astonishing how , by continually making one machine after another , with a little deviation each time ...
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... course as a vote of thanks to the chairman of our own public meetings . In Greece this vote was accompanied by the offering of a crown of leaves , of olive , ivy , or poplar , according to the supposed choice of the god or goddess to ...
... course as a vote of thanks to the chairman of our own public meetings . In Greece this vote was accompanied by the offering of a crown of leaves , of olive , ivy , or poplar , according to the supposed choice of the god or goddess to ...
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... course , passing Lanark , Hamilton , and Glasgow , and merges in the Firth of Clyde below Dumbarton . From its source to Dumbarton it is about 73 miles in length , the direct district being about 52. Its principal tributaries are the ...
... course , passing Lanark , Hamilton , and Glasgow , and merges in the Firth of Clyde below Dumbarton . From its source to Dumbarton it is about 73 miles in length , the direct district being about 52. Its principal tributaries are the ...
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