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Page 11
... pipe , into a great reservoir : the tube which terminates the gutter plunges into the liquid , and thus intercepts communication with the inside of the appa- ratus . The disengaged gas is brought back by means of pipes M L , from one of ...
... pipe , into a great reservoir : the tube which terminates the gutter plunges into the liquid , and thus intercepts communication with the inside of the appa- ratus . The disengaged gas is brought back by means of pipes M L , from one of ...
Page 58
... pipe - clay , will form 474 tons of alum ; so that the nett cost would be 5221. for the acid + 10471 . for the sulphate of potash , = 1569 .; which sum divided by 474 , gives a quotient of 31. 6s . for the nett cost of 1 ton of alum by ...
... pipe - clay , will form 474 tons of alum ; so that the nett cost would be 5221. for the acid + 10471 . for the sulphate of potash , = 1569 .; which sum divided by 474 , gives a quotient of 31. 6s . for the nett cost of 1 ton of alum by ...
Page 59
... pipe , and has also a supply pipe , connecting the boiler with a reservoir of ammo- niacal gas liquor . Into the lowermost vessel of the series passes a pipe conveying high pressure steam , by means of which the liquor in the boiler ...
... pipe , and has also a supply pipe , connecting the boiler with a reservoir of ammo- niacal gas liquor . Into the lowermost vessel of the series passes a pipe conveying high pressure steam , by means of which the liquor in the boiler ...
Page 90
... pipe , about a quarter of an inch smaller than the bore . This is generally made of tin ( though sometimes of copper or lead ) in convenient lengths ; and , as each length is let down , it is held by a shoulder resting in a fork , while ...
... pipe , about a quarter of an inch smaller than the bore . This is generally made of tin ( though sometimes of copper or lead ) in convenient lengths ; and , as each length is let down , it is held by a shoulder resting in a fork , while ...
Page 91
... pipe by a succession of strokes ; and when one length of pipe has , by these means , been forced down , another length is introduced into the socket of the former . Another tool for the same purpose is shown at fig . 58 , which is ...
... pipe by a succession of strokes ; and when one length of pipe has , by these means , been forced down , another length is introduced into the socket of the former . Another tool for the same purpose is shown at fig . 58 , which is ...
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Page 108 - Combined co-operation of many orders of workpeople, adult and young, in tending with assiduous skill, a system of productive machines, continuously impelled by a central power...
Page 108 - Arkwright alone had the sagacity to discern, and the boldness to predict in glowing language, how vastly productive human industry would become, when no longer proportioned in its results to muscular effort, which is by its nature fitful and capricious, but when made to consist in the task of guiding the work of mechanical fingers and arms, regularly impelled with great velocity by some indefatigable physical power.
Page 549 - Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is (d).
Page 39 - These tubes are open at both ends when operating ; except the top end b, of the tube a, which is closed by means of a pellet of wax. The substance to be examined is weighed and put into the flask A, into which water is then poured to the extent of one-third of its capacity.
Page 175 - ... boiling wood or coal tar. The latter, when inspissated to a proper degree of hardness, becomes brittle, and may be readily crushed into powder ; while the former, in like circumstances, retains sufficient tenacity to resist abrasion. Factitious tar and pitch being generated by the force of fire, seem to have a propensity to decompose by the joint agency of water and air, whereas mineral pitch has been known to remain for ages without alteration.
Page 362 - This phenomenon is akin to that exhibited in the process of wire-drawing, where the iron or brass gets condensed, hard, and brittle, while it disengages much heat : which the caoutchouc thread also does in a degree intolerable to unpractised fingers, as above mentioned.
Page 82 - But fifteen pounds of flesh contain no more carbon than four pounds of starch, and while the savage, with one animal and an equal weight of starch, could maintain life and health for a certain number of days, he would be compelled, if confined to flesh alone, in order to procure the carbon necessary for respiration during the same time, to consume five such animals.
Page 221 - ... of the heated plates. As this simple precaution is so easily accomplished, I would advise its general adoption. It can do no harm to the boiler, and may be the means of averting explosions and the destruction of many valuable lives. "The fusible metal plates, as used in France, are generally covered by a perforated metallic disc, which protects the alloy of which the plate is composed, and allows it to ooze through as soon as the steam has attained the temperature necessary to insure the fusion...
Page 384 - The body to be moulded, previously oiled, must be secured one inch above the surface of a board, and then surrounded by a wall of clay, about an inch distant from its sides. The clay must also extend rather higher than the contained body : into this, warm melted...
Page 208 - To counteract this, we have, or may be conceived to have, the tenacity of as many longitudinal bars as there are lineal units in the circumference of the cylinder. The united strength of these bars constitutes the total retaining or quiescent force, and at the moment when rupture is about to take place, the divellent and the quiescent forces must obviously be equal.