Addresses Delivered at the Triennial Celebration ..., Volumes 24-281886 |
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... produce speedy death from suffocation . But besides this negative power , which it shares with the other constituents of illuminating gas , carbonic oxide is conspicuous for poisonous properties which are peculiarly its own . It exerts ...
... produce speedy death from suffocation . But besides this negative power , which it shares with the other constituents of illuminating gas , carbonic oxide is conspicuous for poisonous properties which are peculiarly its own . It exerts ...
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... produced by carbonic - oxide poisoning should have due weight , as should especially the results of Gruber , * who removed the carbonic oxide from illumin- ating gas , and then mixed the purified gas so obtained with air in various ...
... produced by carbonic - oxide poisoning should have due weight , as should especially the results of Gruber , * who removed the carbonic oxide from illumin- ating gas , and then mixed the purified gas so obtained with air in various ...
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... produce upon healthy animals distinctly poisonous effects . With water gas , on the contrary , it is comparatively easy to get into an ordinary apartment , through the ordinary burners , gas enough to pro- duce poisonous and even fatal ...
... produce upon healthy animals distinctly poisonous effects . With water gas , on the contrary , it is comparatively easy to get into an ordinary apartment , through the ordinary burners , gas enough to pro- duce poisonous and even fatal ...
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... produce poisoning : this seems to be merely the time required to attain a poisonous percentage of carbonic oxide ; and this clearly depends on the rate of inflow , the size of the room , the leakage , etc. In view of the foregoing ...
... produce poisoning : this seems to be merely the time required to attain a poisonous percentage of carbonic oxide ; and this clearly depends on the rate of inflow , the size of the room , the leakage , etc. In view of the foregoing ...
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... produce equal and opposite currents in either branch of any neigh- boring conductor , or , in other words , no current at all . This device , therefore , prevents cross - talk , whether due to leak- age or induction , and , with cables ...
... produce equal and opposite currents in either branch of any neigh- boring conductor , or , in other words , no current at all . This device , therefore , prevents cross - talk , whether due to leak- age or induction , and , with cables ...
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Page 92 - ... advise the respective parties what, if anything, ought to be done or submitted to by either or both to adjust said dispute, and make a written decision thereof.
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Page 91 - An Act to provide for a State Board of Arbitration for the settlement of differences between employers and employes, to define the duties of said Board, and to appropriate the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars therefor.
Page 93 - ... make and publish a report finding such cause or causes, and assigning such responsibility or blame. The board shall have the same powers for the foregoing purposes as are given it by section three of this act.
Page 81 - To form some conception of the degree of coarse-grainedness indicated by this conclusion, imagine a rain drop, or a globe of glass as large as a pea, to be magnified up to the size of the earth, each constituent molecule being magnified in the same proportion. The magnified structure would be coarser grained than a heap of small shot, but probably less coarse grained than a heap of cricketballs.
Page 79 - Pendulum vibrating Seconds of Mean Time in the Latitude of London in a Vacuum at the Level of the Sea is in the proportion of Thirty-Six Inches to Thirty-Nine Inches and one thousand three hundred and ninety-three ten-thousandth Parts of an Inch...
Page 39 - Cross in the chair. The records of the previous meeting were read and approved. The chairman...
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Page 133 - ... following : — First. To give the students practice in such experimental work as any engineer is constantly liable to be called upon to perform in the practice of his profession; as boiler tests, engine tests, power determinations, etc. Second. To give the students some experience in carrying on original investigations in engineering subjects with such care and accuracy as to render the results of real value to the engineering community. Third. By publishing from time to time the results of...
Page 96 - President, in the Chair. After the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting the name of Dr.