A History of Wonderful Inventions, Bind 1–2Harper & brothers, 1849 |
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Side 5
... course , according to the position of the four car- dinal points , take a basin full of water , which they shelter from the wind by placing it in the interior of the vessel . They then drive a needle into a wooden peg or corn stalk , so ...
... course , according to the position of the four car- dinal points , take a basin full of water , which they shelter from the wind by placing it in the interior of the vessel . They then drive a needle into a wooden peg or corn stalk , so ...
Side 11
... course point nearly towards the south ; and if the cork be turned round , so as to direct the needle to the points opposite to those towards which it was naturally directed , it will , as soon as it is released from com- pulsion , again ...
... course point nearly towards the south ; and if the cork be turned round , so as to direct the needle to the points opposite to those towards which it was naturally directed , it will , as soon as it is released from com- pulsion , again ...
Side 14
... courses of heavy stones upon the rock , and then erected a superstruc- ture of wood . The lighthouse on the Bell Rock , off the coast of Fife , and the one placed at the entrance of the Mersey on the Black Rock , are similarly ...
... courses of heavy stones upon the rock , and then erected a superstruc- ture of wood . The lighthouse on the Bell Rock , off the coast of Fife , and the one placed at the entrance of the Mersey on the Black Rock , are similarly ...
Side 17
... course the one grand object in the construction of a lighthouse is , that it shall be enabled to display as large and intense a light as possible . On the several coasts of the British islands the usual plan adopted is to place an ...
... course the one grand object in the construction of a lighthouse is , that it shall be enabled to display as large and intense a light as possible . On the several coasts of the British islands the usual plan adopted is to place an ...
Side 30
... course by the sea . It was desirable to avoid a long gallery , through which the trains would have had to pass , unless a durable sea - wall could be formed by which the carriages might proceed in open daylight . With characteristic ...
... course by the sea . It was desirable to avoid a long gallery , through which the trains would have had to pass , unless a durable sea - wall could be formed by which the carriages might proceed in open daylight . With characteristic ...
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afterwards Anthemius appears application Arkwright ascertain atmosphere ball beautiful became boat boiler brought called century clock coal colours common compass condenser construction contrived convex cotton cylinder Dalswinton direction discovered discovery distance earth EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE effect electric telegraph employed engaged engine England EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI experiments feet fire force formed four Galileo gasometer glass gunpowder Guttenberg hand heat Hero of Alexandria Holyhead horse hour hundred immense improvement inches instrument invention inventor iron Julius Cæsar labour length lens lenses letters light London machine magnetic Marquis of Worcester means mercury Messrs microscope miles moved needle object observed obtained opened pass patent philosopher piece pipe piston placed present principle printing produced purpose railway reflecting telescope rendered rollers round ship side Soho Foundry steam steam-engine surface telegraph telescope thermometer thousand threads tion tons tube turned upwards vessel warp Watt weft weight wheel wire yarn
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Side 20 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
Side 106 - Achromatic Lenses. The color effect caused by the chromatic aberration of a simple lens greatly impairs its usefulness.
Side 12 - ... which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it...
Side 48 - There was exhibited on it a negro, a shepherd, and a dog. When the clock struck, the shepherd played six tunes on his flute, and the dog approached and fawned upon him. This clock was exhibited to the king of Spain, who was greatly delighted with it. " The gentleness of my dog," said Droz,
Side 12 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough...
Side 54 - Faust was so pleased with the contrivance, that he promised Peter to give him his only daughter Christina in marriage, a promise which he soon after performed. But there were as many difficulties at first with these letters, as there had been before with...
Side 77 - As I had occasion to pass daily to and from the building-yard while my boat was in progress, I have often loitered unknown near the idle groups of strangers, gathering in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this new vehicle. The language was uniformly that of scorn, or sneer, or ridicule. The loud laugh often rose at my expense ; the ' dry jest ; the wise calculations of losses and expenditures ; the dull but endless repetition of the Fulton Folly.
Side 12 - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream, forty feet high ; one vessel of water, rarified by fire, driveth up forty of cold water. And a man that tends the work is but to turn two cocks, that one vessel of water being consumed, another begins to force and refill with cold water, and so successively, the fire being tended and kept constant, which the self-same person may likewise abundantly perform in the interim, between the necessity of turning the said cocks.
Side 93 - The manner of the carriage is, by laying rails of timber from the colliery to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rollers fitting those rails, whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Side 78 - The man who, while he looked on the expensive machine. thanked his stars that he had more wisdom than to waste his money on such idle schemes, changed the expression of his features as the boat moved from the wharf and gained her speed; his complacent smile gradually stiffened into an expression of wonder.