Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy, Volumen1W.R. M'Phun., 1824 |
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... glass . From the measure cistern , the liquor is allowed to flow into the hollows in the upper lead plate , whence it decends on the cloth , and percolates through it , extrac- ting , in its passage , the Turkey - red dye . The liquor ...
... glass . From the measure cistern , the liquor is allowed to flow into the hollows in the upper lead plate , whence it decends on the cloth , and percolates through it , extrac- ting , in its passage , the Turkey - red dye . The liquor ...
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... glass tubes for indica- and pull through the discharged ting the quantity of liquor in the cloth , from which it falls into the cistern ; ee , glass stop - cocks , for water - box ; k , stop - cock , for filling admitting the liquor ...
... glass tubes for indica- and pull through the discharged ting the quantity of liquor in the cloth , from which it falls into the cistern ; ee , glass stop - cocks , for water - box ; k , stop - cock , for filling admitting the liquor ...
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... , place a lighted taper so as to float with- out being extinguished ; if above this taper a glass tumbler be inverted , and pressed downwards , the contained air To the Editor of the GLASGOW MECHANICS ' MAGAZINE . 28 THE GLASGOW.
... , place a lighted taper so as to float with- out being extinguished ; if above this taper a glass tumbler be inverted , and pressed downwards , the contained air To the Editor of the GLASGOW MECHANICS ' MAGAZINE . 28 THE GLASGOW.
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... glass as transparent and free from blue or green colour , as the best German sheet . The Gold Medal , or Fifty Guineas , for a black dye for silk or wool , superior to any in use . For the best mode of stain- ing cotton cloth with a red ...
... glass as transparent and free from blue or green colour , as the best German sheet . The Gold Medal , or Fifty Guineas , for a black dye for silk or wool , superior to any in use . For the best mode of stain- ing cotton cloth with a red ...
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... glass , with the point of a diamond . A single pound of cotton has been spun into a thread 76 miles in length ; and a pound of wool , into one of 95 miles : the diameters of those threads being only the 350th Metaphysicians , and even ...
... glass , with the point of a diamond . A single pound of cotton has been spun into a thread 76 miles in length ; and a pound of wool , into one of 95 miles : the diameters of those threads being only the 350th Metaphysicians , and even ...
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Página 118 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Página 438 - We have said that Mr Watt was the great improver of the steam-engine ; but, in truth, as to all that is admirable in its structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions...
Página 290 - Nicole, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same...
Página 438 - It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Página 256 - ... books, and I learned geometry. By reading I found that there were good books in these two sciences in Latin : I bought a Dictionary, and I learned Latin. I understood also that there were good books of the same kind in French : I bought a dictionary, and I learned French. And this, my lord, is what I have done : it seems to me that we may learn every thing when we know the twenty-four letters of the alphabet.
Página 438 - It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter ; and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations.
Página 71 - On the 15th of August, 1643, as I stood at my window, I was surprised with a most wonderful delectable vision. The sea that washes the Sicilian shore swelled up and became, for ten miles in length, like a chain of dark mountains ; while the waters near our Calabrian coast grew quite smooth, and in an instant appeared as one clear polished mirror, reclining against the ridge.
Página 162 - For were it not better for a man in a fair room to set up one great light, or branching candlestick of lights, than to go about with a small watch candle into every corner?
Página 71 - In a moment they lost half their height, and bent into arcades, like Roman aqueducts. A long cornice was next formed on the top, and above it rose castles innumerable, all perfectly alike. These soon split into towers, which were shortly after lost in colonnades, then windows, and at last ended in pines, cypresses, and other trees, even and similar. This was the Fata Morgana, which, for twenty-six years, I had thought a mere fable.
Página 362 - This mixture is to be melted to a frit, and is then to be ground to a fine powder, 3 parts of calcined borax being added previously to the grinding.