The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Band 7Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American Compiling Department, 1905 |
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... engine of one and a half horsepower , while the bird weighing 17 pounds has a sail area of only 9.85 square feet and a propelling power of but .043 horsepower . Birds vary very much in wing power according to their method of flight ...
... engine of one and a half horsepower , while the bird weighing 17 pounds has a sail area of only 9.85 square feet and a propelling power of but .043 horsepower . Birds vary very much in wing power according to their method of flight ...
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... engine , a pipe for the conveyance of the caloric current through a boiler , to heat the surrounding water . It is usually secured in the sheets of the fire box and smoke box respectively , as in the locomotive . Fluel'len , a humorous ...
... engine , a pipe for the conveyance of the caloric current through a boiler , to heat the surrounding water . It is usually secured in the sheets of the fire box and smoke box respectively , as in the locomotive . Fluel'len , a humorous ...
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... engine when it comes up to them . Bell - buoys , common to the coasts of the United States , are operated by the current , by the ebbing and flowing tide , by the swaying of the waves , by the wind , and by clockwork impelled by weight ...
... engine when it comes up to them . Bell - buoys , common to the coasts of the United States , are operated by the current , by the ebbing and flowing tide , by the swaying of the waves , by the wind , and by clockwork impelled by weight ...
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... engines , which transport themselves about the woods by their own power whenever change of location is required . Forestry being in many respects more closely akin to lumber- ing than to any other occupation , it is of first importance ...
... engines , which transport themselves about the woods by their own power whenever change of location is required . Forestry being in many respects more closely akin to lumber- ing than to any other occupation , it is of first importance ...
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... engines , boilers , gas engines , gas ma- chinery , iron and steel bars , freight and pas- senger cars , locomotives , electrical machinery and electrical fittings and fixtures , hosiery gloves , caps , oil tanks , organs and pianos.
... engines , boilers , gas engines , gas ma- chinery , iron and steel bars , freight and pas- senger cars , locomotives , electrical machinery and electrical fittings and fixtures , hosiery gloves , caps , oil tanks , organs and pianos.
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Seite 19 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares, and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same...
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Seite 18 - On a Man's writing Memoirs of Himself; On Decision of Character ; On the Application of the Epithet Romantic ; On some of the Causes by which Evangelical Religion has been rendered less acceptable to Persons of cultivated Taste.