The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 12James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1873 - Science |
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... fixed pivot . There is no such fixed pivot in a ship : every point of it moves ; but at the extreme ends and sides this see - sawing is added to the unsteadiness of the middle part of the ship , which accordingly seems to be ...
... fixed pivot . There is no such fixed pivot in a ship : every point of it moves ; but at the extreme ends and sides this see - sawing is added to the unsteadiness of the middle part of the ship , which accordingly seems to be ...
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... fixed hours , irrespective of tide , must be abandoned , and there will also be certain rough days in which small mail steamers can enter the harbours when the larger boats cannot do so with safety . There can be no question , however ...
... fixed hours , irrespective of tide , must be abandoned , and there will also be certain rough days in which small mail steamers can enter the harbours when the larger boats cannot do so with safety . There can be no question , however ...
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... fixed saloon at one end between decks , 52 ft . long ; and a line of fixed cabins on each side of the ship , between the paddle- boxes . This line of fixed cabins will occupy a total length of 150 ft . , and include a refreshment ...
... fixed saloon at one end between decks , 52 ft . long ; and a line of fixed cabins on each side of the ship , between the paddle- boxes . This line of fixed cabins will occupy a total length of 150 ft . , and include a refreshment ...
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... fixed to the double bottom of the vessel . " This floor is capable of a motion like the beam of a pump- ing - engine ; and if as much dead weight be placed below the beams of the floor as will counterbalance the upper part of the ...
... fixed to the double bottom of the vessel . " This floor is capable of a motion like the beam of a pump- ing - engine ; and if as much dead weight be placed below the beams of the floor as will counterbalance the upper part of the ...
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... fixed point would describe a vertical circle of five or six feet in diameter in rough weather , quite independently of any rotatory or rocking motion . The model exhibited at Denmark Hill simply oscillated on a fixed centre , and ...
... fixed point would describe a vertical circle of five or six feet in diameter in rough weather , quite independently of any rotatory or rocking motion . The model exhibited at Denmark Hill simply oscillated on a fixed centre , and ...
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