Magazine of Popular Science, and Journal of the Useful Arts, Volumen11836 |
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... length . It is doubtless from such memoirs , and the means by which they are permanently recorded , that the science of this country derives its main support ; but such information , however valuable , is conveyed in a shape little ...
... length . It is doubtless from such memoirs , and the means by which they are permanently recorded , that the science of this country derives its main support ; but such information , however valuable , is conveyed in a shape little ...
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... length from pole to pole , and in breadth , a quarter of the earth's circumference : this is called the tide - wave . Still , supposing the globe uniformly covered with water , these waves would travel round the globe , each maintaining ...
... length from pole to pole , and in breadth , a quarter of the earth's circumference : this is called the tide - wave . Still , supposing the globe uniformly covered with water , these waves would travel round the globe , each maintaining ...
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being stopped , it will take a course along their length : it will run round the Capes in which they terminate . These broken streams , as it were , will again meet with others occasioned by the like obstructions of other lands : their ...
being stopped , it will take a course along their length : it will run round the Capes in which they terminate . These broken streams , as it were , will again meet with others occasioned by the like obstructions of other lands : their ...
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... length , the present state both of theory and observation . We have alluded to the stimulus of late given to the prosecution of Tide observations . At the end of his paper , in 1833 , Mr. Whewell had suggested , that if simultaneous ...
... length , the present state both of theory and observation . We have alluded to the stimulus of late given to the prosecution of Tide observations . At the end of his paper , in 1833 , Mr. Whewell had suggested , that if simultaneous ...
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... length to which the coloured spectrum extends , compared with its breadth . Thus you may , with a little practice , manage to compare it with some fixed object which may be seen by the side of it , by looking past the prism at the same ...
... length to which the coloured spectrum extends , compared with its breadth . Thus you may , with a little practice , manage to compare it with some fixed object which may be seen by the side of it , by looking past the prism at the same ...
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Página 135 - ... or information in any of his Majesty's courts of record at Westminster or in...
Página 87 - I do not love to be printed upon every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things, or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them, when I should be about the King's business.
Página 104 - One of the most remarkable and inexplicable experiments relative to the strength of the human frame, which you have yourself seen and admired, is that in which a heavy man is raised with the greatest facility, when he is lifted up the instant that his own lungs and those of the persons who raise him are inflated with air.
Página 104 - I shall describe, as nearly as possible, the method which he prescribed. The heaviest person in the party lies down upon two chairs, his legs being supported by the one, and his back by the other. Four persons, one at each leg, and one at each shoulder, then try to raise him, and they find his dead weight to be very great, from the difficulty they experience in supporting him.
Página 134 - ... declaration, a notice of any objections on which he means to rely at the trial of such action, and no objection shall be allowed to be made in behalf of such defendant or plaintiff respectively at such trial unless he prove the objections stated in such notice : provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for any judge at chambers, on summons served by such defendant or plaintiff on such plaintiff or defendant respectively to...
Página 104 - ... up the instant that his own lungs and those of the persons who raise him are inflated with air. This experiment was, I believe, first shown in England a few years ago by Major H., who saw it performed in a large party at Venice under the direction of an officer of the American navy.* As Major H.
Página 105 - ... when the inhalation is completed, or the lungs filled, the second signal is given for raising the person from the chair. To his own surprise, and that of his bearers, he rises with the greatest facility, as if he were no heavier than a feather. On several occasions, I have observed, that when one of the bearers performs his part ill by making the inhalation out of tim,e, the part of the body which he tries to raise is left as it were behind.
Página 135 - ... which he hath not or shall not have obtained letters patent, the name or any imitation of the name of any other person who hath or shall have obtained letters patent...
Página 133 - ... enter a memorandum of any alteration in the said title or specification, not being such disclaimer or such alteration as shall extend the exclusive right granted by the said letters patent...
Página 134 - ... on no such manufacture, or published in the county where he carries on such manufacture, or where he lives, in case there shall not be any paper published in such town...