The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, Volumen17William Laxton Published for the proprietor, 1854 |
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... square inch area , which is open to the boiler on the underside , and is loaded on the top of the piston - rod at H , with as many pounds weight as the number of pounds pressure per square inch intended for the limit of the steam ...
... square inch area , which is open to the boiler on the underside , and is loaded on the top of the piston - rod at H , with as many pounds weight as the number of pounds pressure per square inch intended for the limit of the steam ...
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... square Junction Railway and Southwark Improvement . Leominster and Kington . Llanidloes and Newtown ( Extension from Llanidloes to Llangurig , & c . ) Llynvi Valley . London and North - Western ( Crewe and Shrewsbury ) . London and ...
... square Junction Railway and Southwark Improvement . Leominster and Kington . Llanidloes and Newtown ( Extension from Llanidloes to Llangurig , & c . ) Llynvi Valley . London and North - Western ( Crewe and Shrewsbury ) . London and ...
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... square , gentleman - Improvements in the preparation of vegetable substances for the purpose of preserving the same . ( A communication . ) Dated Oct 11 , 1858. - 2328 . J. C. Sharp , Paisley , Renfrew , engineer - Improvements in ...
... square , gentleman - Improvements in the preparation of vegetable substances for the purpose of preserving the same . ( A communication . ) Dated Oct 11 , 1858. - 2328 . J. C. Sharp , Paisley , Renfrew , engineer - Improvements in ...
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... square , of the same length as the joists , and parallel with them ; they are laid on the interties , and bound to them with copper wire , and may be said to take the place of the ceiling laths . Some of the joists and interties next ...
... square , of the same length as the joists , and parallel with them ; they are laid on the interties , and bound to them with copper wire , and may be said to take the place of the ceiling laths . Some of the joists and interties next ...
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... square foot , in addition to the weight of the floor itself . It appeared to him ( Mr. G. R. Burnell ) that one of the great objections to the modern French system of filling in with plaster , was not so much the weight as the expansive ...
... square foot , in addition to the weight of the floor itself . It appeared to him ( Mr. G. R. Burnell ) that one of the great objections to the modern French system of filling in with plaster , was not so much the weight as the expansive ...
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Página 227 - For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.
Página 138 - And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf; and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Página 69 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession...
Página 227 - blessed is he that considereth the poor." And you know that a little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
Página 142 - It only remains to me to thank you for the attention with which you have listened to a lecture which, from its technical nature, must necessarily be somewhat dry and uninteresting.
Página 227 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Página 212 - Gavel, or Scawfell ; or, rather, let us suppose our station to be a cloud hanging midway between those two mountains, at not more than half a mile's distance from the summit of each...
Página 200 - This is the phenomenon seen in the flickering and burning which takes place on the top of a common fire. But if fresh coal, instead of being placed on the top of a fire, where it unavoidably must emit visible pitchy vapour or smoke, be introduced beneath the burning, red-hot coal, so that its pitch, in rising as vapour, must pass among the parts of the burning mass, it will be partly resolved into the inflammable coal gas, and will itself burn and inflame whatever else it touches.
Página 20 - Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways, which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is, by reducing the colours to little more than chiara oscuro, which was often the practice of the Bolognian schools ; and the other, by making the colours very distinct and forcible, such as we see in those of Rome and Florence; but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity.
Página 136 - ... the works that were, like the tombs and tripods of their heroes, to be the monuments of a nation to distant ages, and to transmit the most irrefragable proof 'that the power of ancient Greece was not an idle legend.' The whole democracy were animated with the passion of Pericles ; and when Phidias recommended marble as a cheaper material than ivory for the great statue of Minerva, it was for that reason that ivory was preferred by the unanimous voice of the assembly. Thus, whether it were extravagance...