 | John Tyndall - 1867 - 374 páginas
...windows turned away from the origin of the explosion suffered almost as much as those which faced it. Lead sashes were employed in Erith church, and these...some degree flexible, enabled the windows to yield to pressure without much fracture of the glass. Every window in the church, front and back, was bent inwards.... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1867 - 372 páginas
...windows turned away from the origin of the explosion suffered almost as much as those which faced it. Lead sashes were employed in Erith church, and these...some degree flexible, enabled the windows to yield to pressure without much fracture of the glass. Every window in the church, front and back, was bent inwards.... | |
 | M. J. Williamson - 1873 - 450 páginas
...windows turned away from the origin of the explosion suffered almost as much as those which faced it Lead sashes were employed in Erith church, and these...some degree flexible, enabled the windows to yield to pressure without much fracture of the glass. Every window in the church, front and back, was bent inwards.... | |
 | 1878 - 802 páginas
...shattering the windows on every side, though the village was some miles from the magazine, says : " Lead sashes were employed in Erith church, and these...some degree flexible, enabled the windows to yield to pressure without much fracture of the glass. Every window in the church, front and back, was bent inward.... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - 1877 - 546 páginas
...buildings equally on all sides. Professor Tyndall thinks it was the "sonorous wave" which «»fitcttd, and doubled its two ends around the building, thus...employed in Erith church, and these being in some degree fletible, enabled the windows to yield to the pressure without much fracture of the glass. Every window... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 626 páginas
...windows turned away from the origin of the explosion suffered almost as much as those which faced it. Lead sashes were employed in Erith Church, and these...some degree flexible enabled the windows to yield to pressure without much fracture of the glass. As the sound-wave reached the church it separated right... | |
 | James Welton - 1899 - 314 páginas
...windows turned away from the origin of the explosion suffered almost as much as those which faced it. Lead sashes were employed in Erith church ; and these,...some degree flexible, enabled the windows to yield to pressure without much fracture of glass. Every window in the church, front and back, was bent inwards.... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - 1905 - 472 páginas
...windows turned away from the origin of the explosion suffered almost as much as those which faced it. Lead sashes were employed in Erith church ; and these,...some degree flexible, enabled the windows to yield to pressure without much fracture of glass. Every window in the church, front and back, was bent inwards.... | |
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The village of Erith was some miles distant from the magazine, but in nearly all cases the windows were shattered ; and it was noticeable that the windows turned away from the origin of the explosion suffered almost as much as those which faced it. Lead... 