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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... nearly all of it at renumerative rates , and secondly the whole annual number of passengers is very limited . We in England are apt to talk as if the channel passage were of even greater importance to Europe than to ourselves . The fact ...
... nearly all of it at renumerative rates , and secondly the whole annual number of passengers is very limited . We in England are apt to talk as if the channel passage were of even greater importance to Europe than to ourselves . The fact ...
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... nearly twice as much wetted surface as an ordinary vessel of the same displacement . As a large part of * This sketch must not be considered authentic , except as regards its general shape , nor as being correct in its dimensions . The ...
... nearly twice as much wetted surface as an ordinary vessel of the same displacement . As a large part of * This sketch must not be considered authentic , except as regards its general shape , nor as being correct in its dimensions . The ...
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... nearly three in every thousand the proportion lost by the cause of accident we are now specially considering varies very much from year to year , but last year it was almost exactly one quarter of the whole . Fire - damp , the source of ...
... nearly three in every thousand the proportion lost by the cause of accident we are now specially considering varies very much from year to year , but last year it was almost exactly one quarter of the whole . Fire - damp , the source of ...
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... nearly level as possible , to the right and left of D up to the boundaries of the royalty ; the roads A A ' , DV , B B ' , are then driven at right angles to A B , up to the boundary on the rise side the boundary on the dip side is A B ...
... nearly level as possible , to the right and left of D up to the boundaries of the royalty ; the roads A A ' , DV , B B ' , are then driven at right angles to A B , up to the boundary on the rise side the boundary on the dip side is A B ...
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... nearly all coals there is a risk , and in some a certainty , of meeting with these blowers , and for perfect security we must find some means of removing the danger arising from them . This is done by em- ploying what are known as ...
... nearly all coals there is a risk , and in some a certainty , of meeting with these blowers , and for perfect security we must find some means of removing the danger arising from them . This is done by em- ploying what are known as ...
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