Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Metallurgists, Mine Proprietors, Engineers, Shipbuilders, Scientists, Capitalists ..., Volume 32Perry Fairfax Nursey Knight and Lacey, 1840 |
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... boiler - chambers , from the badness of the coke , had crippled the Automaton's power , so that the last 5 miles into Cam- bridge occupied nearly an hour . The average rate of travelling the first 30 miles was , exclusive of stoppages ...
... boiler - chambers , from the badness of the coke , had crippled the Automaton's power , so that the last 5 miles into Cam- bridge occupied nearly an hour . The average rate of travelling the first 30 miles was , exclusive of stoppages ...
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... boilers , and that the water " ( on the voyage from Greenock to London ) " was blown out too low by these cocks , " from all which it would appear that the injection condensers were in operation on this voyage . Yet the express object ...
... boilers , and that the water " ( on the voyage from Greenock to London ) " was blown out too low by these cocks , " from all which it would appear that the injection condensers were in operation on this voyage . Yet the express object ...
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... boiler , and avoid any incrustation of salt . Now it so happens that in 1825 I assisted in the construction and ... boilers . By the by , I see in your number of the 14th instant , that one of wise men of " The British Association , " a ...
... boiler , and avoid any incrustation of salt . Now it so happens that in 1825 I assisted in the construction and ... boilers . By the by , I see in your number of the 14th instant , that one of wise men of " The British Association , " a ...
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... boiler or boilers , and connect them with the pipes for the conveyance of steam , and the auxi- liary parts of the engine . The boilers which I employ are of the cylindrical kind , and they are to be so set that they may be com- pletely ...
... boiler or boilers , and connect them with the pipes for the conveyance of steam , and the auxi- liary parts of the engine . The boilers which I employ are of the cylindrical kind , and they are to be so set that they may be com- pletely ...
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... boilers are em- ployed , as herein fully made known . I claim the manner in which I have con- structed my indicator , and connected and combined the same with the boiler , snb- stantially as described . Lastly , I claim the particular ...
... boilers are em- ployed , as herein fully made known . I claim the manner in which I have con- structed my indicator , and connected and combined the same with the boiler , snb- stantially as described . Lastly , I claim the particular ...
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Page 453 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime. The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 221 - An Act to secure to Proprietors of Designs for articles of Manufacture the Copyright of such Designs for a limited Time.
Page 412 - I have the honour to be, Sir, " With great respect, "Your most obed. and very humble servant, " BYRON.
Page 601 - ... fixed in a bottle, and the quantity of rain caught is ascertained by multiplying the weight in ounces by 173, which gives the depth in inches and parts of an inch.
Page 91 - Phlogiston, without exactly defining it. Mr. Cavendish leaves it uncertain, whether or not he meant by phlogiston simply inflammable air, and he inclines rather to call inflammable air, water united to phlogiston. Mr. Watt says expressly, even in his later paper (of November 1783), and in a passage not to be found in the letter of April 1783, that he thinks that inflammable air contains a small quantity of water, and much elementary heat.
Page 89 - Mr. Cavendish himself could find no loss of weight, and he says, that Dr. Priestley had also tried the experiment, and found none.* But Mr. Cavendish found there was always a dewy deposit, without any sooty matter. The result of many trials was, that common air and inflammable air being burnt together, in the proportion of 1000 measures of the former to 423 of the latter, " about one-fifth of the common air, and nearly all the inflammable air, lose their elasticity, and are condensed into the dew...
Page 89 - Lavoisier, as well as of the conclusion drawn from them, that dephlogisticated air is only water deprived of phlogiston ; but at that time so far was M. Lavoisier from thinking any such opinion warranted, that, till he was prevailed upon to repeat the experiment himself, he found some difficulty in believing that nearly the whole of the two airs could be converted into water.
Page 31 - The metal is a combination of copper and zinc, the best admixture being found to be 60 per cent, of the former, and 40 per cent, of the latter. The...
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