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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... body has its own note , or periodic time . If it happens that the periodic time of the suspended cabin coincides , absolutely or approximately , with that of the point of suspension , there may be an accumulated roll far in excess of ...
... body has its own note , or periodic time . If it happens that the periodic time of the suspended cabin coincides , absolutely or approximately , with that of the point of suspension , there may be an accumulated roll far in excess of ...
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... body of the coal itself . How it came there is a question to which it is not easy to give a definite answer . The same gas , however , is produced by the decomposition of dead plants in marshy places , and we must content ourselves with ...
... body of the coal itself . How it came there is a question to which it is not easy to give a definite answer . The same gas , however , is produced by the decomposition of dead plants in marshy places , and we must content ourselves with ...
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... body through the windings and turn- ings of the workings , but by this method the current became too much contaminated , and its velocity too much reduced before it reached the end of its long journey , to allow of its producing any ...
... body through the windings and turn- ings of the workings , but by this method the current became too much contaminated , and its velocity too much reduced before it reached the end of its long journey , to allow of its producing any ...
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... body ; and we must next see by what means the circulation is kept going in the case of the mine . The methods usually employed are twofold : sometimes a large fan , turned by machinery , is placed at the top of the up- cast shaft , to ...
... body ; and we must next see by what means the circulation is kept going in the case of the mine . The methods usually employed are twofold : sometimes a large fan , turned by machinery , is placed at the top of the up- cast shaft , to ...
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... body of facts was accumulated , and , with reference to the property by which certain plants prove victorious in the struggle for life , it was clear that the natural habit or organisation of the plant was , cæteris paribus , the ...
... body of facts was accumulated , and , with reference to the property by which certain plants prove victorious in the struggle for life , it was clear that the natural habit or organisation of the plant was , cæteris paribus , the ...
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