Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy, 2. köideW.R. M'Phun., 1825 |
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... matter which he introduced was on the subject of Gas Light , when he entered into considerable detail on the properties of Coal and Oil Gas . If time will permit , the Directors propose to in- troduce next year , in addition to the re ...
... matter which he introduced was on the subject of Gas Light , when he entered into considerable detail on the properties of Coal and Oil Gas . If time will permit , the Directors propose to in- troduce next year , in addition to the re ...
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... matter to flow , which in fact was nothing less than glass . " 25. - Specific Gravity . Hiero , king of Syracuse , having furnished a work- man with a quantity of gold for making a crown , suspected that he had been cheated , and that ...
... matter to flow , which in fact was nothing less than glass . " 25. - Specific Gravity . Hiero , king of Syracuse , having furnished a work- man with a quantity of gold for making a crown , suspected that he had been cheated , and that ...
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... : " But then it does not , on an average , " contain one - half the quantity of matter , nor " one - half the number of illustrative engrav- " ings that the London Magazine does . We " wish , ( not evidently for our own sakes 14 THE ...
... : " But then it does not , on an average , " contain one - half the quantity of matter , nor " one - half the number of illustrative engrav- " ings that the London Magazine does . We " wish , ( not evidently for our own sakes 14 THE ...
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... matter in the one as in the other , and that the London Magazine contains no illustrative engravings at all , but only wood - cuts , whereas the Glasgow one has , in general , a very fine illustrative copperplate engraving , and a ...
... matter in the one as in the other , and that the London Magazine contains no illustrative engravings at all , but only wood - cuts , whereas the Glasgow one has , in general , a very fine illustrative copperplate engraving , and a ...
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... matter to be acted upon ; but when it is retarded by the opaque body of the earth , an insen- sible action is excited upon the particles of matter , caloric is disengaged and heats the surrounding air near the surface ; but which never ...
... matter to be acted upon ; but when it is retarded by the opaque body of the earth , an insen- sible action is excited upon the particles of matter , caloric is disengaged and heats the surrounding air near the surface ; but which never ...
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Page 81 - Lighter than air, Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky ; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? These, when the trembling spirit wings her flight, Pour round her path a stream of living light, And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest Where Virtue triumphs and her sons are blest...
Page 331 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, Intra sphceram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder if the vessels be strong enough...
Page 150 - Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, Though baffled oft is ever won. Bear witness, Greece, thy living page, Attest it many a deathless age ! While kings, in dusty darkness hid, Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier monument command, The mountains of their native land ! There points thy Muse to stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die...
Page 360 - Thirdly. Whatever air or other elastic vapour is not condensed by the cold of the condenser, and may impede the working of the engine, is to be drawn out of the steam vessels or condensers by means of pumps, wrought by the engines themselves, or otherwise.
Page 338 - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high ; one vessel of water rarefied by fire driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and re-fill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Page 6 - Yard when compared with a pendulum vibrating seconds of mean time, in the latitude of London, in a vacuum at the level of the sea...
Page 360 - 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 as the pressure of the atmosphere is now employed in common...
Page 457 - I have shown that chemical attractions may be exalted, modified, or destroyed, by changes in the electrical states of bodies; that substances will only combine when they are in different electrical states; and that, by bringing a body naturally positive artificially into a negative state, its usual powers of combination are altogether destroyed...
Page 13 - Lancashire, where it was manufactured into yarn; from Manchester it was sent to Paisley, where it was woven; it was sent to Ayrshire next, where it was tamboured...
Page 360 - In engines that are to be worked wholly or partially by condensation of steam, the steam is to be condensed in vessels distinct from the...