The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1872 |
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... ordinary skeleton crew of 18 men , to which were added 60 picked boys ( who proved extremely serviceable ) from the Nelson training - ship , and was commanded by Captain Panter , senior naval officer of Victoria . Her steaming powers ...
... ordinary skeleton crew of 18 men , to which were added 60 picked boys ( who proved extremely serviceable ) from the Nelson training - ship , and was commanded by Captain Panter , senior naval officer of Victoria . Her steaming powers ...
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... ordinary time - fuze will be employed . This , when ignited , after a stated interval darts a jet of flame from the pellet of fuze composition contained within it through an opening in the bottom of the fuze - box , which communicates ...
... ordinary time - fuze will be employed . This , when ignited , after a stated interval darts a jet of flame from the pellet of fuze composition contained within it through an opening in the bottom of the fuze - box , which communicates ...
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... ordinary bronze the cohesive strength of the metal is much reduced by the oxidation of the tin , though this action is sought to be re- duced by the use of wooden rabbles . The oxide of tin , which has no strength in itself , by its ...
... ordinary bronze the cohesive strength of the metal is much reduced by the oxidation of the tin , though this action is sought to be re- duced by the use of wooden rabbles . The oxide of tin , which has no strength in itself , by its ...
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... ordinary methods . The boring machine was mounted upon wheels , and was for- warded upon a tramway . It had ten perforators , acted upon by two flexible tubes , the one conveying compressed air , and the other water . Each jumper made ...
... ordinary methods . The boring machine was mounted upon wheels , and was for- warded upon a tramway . It had ten perforators , acted upon by two flexible tubes , the one conveying compressed air , and the other water . Each jumper made ...
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... ordinary street cars . It is very tastefully fitted up and brilliantly lighted , and has seats for 22 persons . It is propelled by means of a strong blast of air , which is supplied to the tunnel by a gigantic blowing machine . The ...
... ordinary street cars . It is very tastefully fitted up and brilliantly lighted , and has seats for 22 persons . It is propelled by means of a strong blast of air , which is supplied to the tunnel by a gigantic blowing machine . The ...
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Стр. 119 - The hypothesis that life originated on this earth through moss-grown fragments from the ruins of another world may seem wild and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.
Стр. 119 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
Стр. 119 - ... we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seedbearing meteoric stones moving about through space. If at the present instant no life existed upon this earth, one such stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation.