American Mechanics' Magazine, Volume 1C. S. Williams, 1825 - Technology |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 4
... experiment has succeeded perfectly . The following is an ex- tract of the letter : " There is a pond , of nine feet in diame- ter and three feet deep , in the garden of M. B. , the water of which is used for watering the garden . The ...
... experiment has succeeded perfectly . The following is an ex- tract of the letter : " There is a pond , of nine feet in diame- ter and three feet deep , in the garden of M. B. , the water of which is used for watering the garden . The ...
Page 7
... experiment . The city ; by which they made it the power applied is so portable , that a wonder of the world , and the resort man of ordinary strength may carry of the wealthy and curious of all an engine of two - horse power upon ...
... experiment . The city ; by which they made it the power applied is so portable , that a wonder of the world , and the resort man of ordinary strength may carry of the wealthy and curious of all an engine of two - horse power upon ...
Page 10
... experiments on a the top of the rod . Nor is this all ; large scale in the Pantheon , and the for the air will be ... experiment with electricity . Hence , from the wide the heated ball , ( an experiment to prove dispersion , owing to ...
... experiments on a the top of the rod . Nor is this all ; large scale in the Pantheon , and the for the air will be ... experiment with electricity . Hence , from the wide the heated ball , ( an experiment to prove dispersion , owing to ...
Page 20
... experiments extant and comprised under these heads , practicable with my directions by the unparalleled workman , both for trust and skill , Caspar Kaltoff's hand , who has been these five - and - thirty years as in a school , under me ...
... experiments extant and comprised under these heads , practicable with my directions by the unparalleled workman , both for trust and skill , Caspar Kaltoff's hand , who has been these five - and - thirty years as in a school , under me ...
Page 30
... experiments to show the effects of several combined ingredients to render materials entirely incombustible ; he is stated to have subdued an artificial fire by two men and forty measures of preparation , that would have required twenty ...
... experiments to show the effects of several combined ingredients to render materials entirely incombustible ; he is stated to have subdued an artificial fire by two men and forty measures of preparation , that would have required twenty ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acid angle applied ascer axis barometer boat body boiler boiling BROWN'S GAS canal carbonic acid carriage cast iron centre charcoal circle coal coal gas colour common constructed copper Correspondent cupel cylinder degrees diameter distance draw effect employed equal expense experiments feet fire fixed force friction given glass half heat horse improvement inches increase invention lamp length less lever light lime liquor Lond machine Magazine manufacture means mechanical melted ment metal method miles an hour mode motion move nerally observed obtained pass perpendicular piece pipe plates pounds pounds weight present pressure produced proportion pump purpose quantity quick lime quired railway readers ROYAL MINT scale screw ship side slider specific gravity square stay-sails steam engine steel sufficient surface tallow tion tube turned velocity vessel weight wheel windlass
Popular passages
Page 353 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Page 310 - ... injured brood. The barking of the dog, the mewing of the cat, the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity. He repeats the tune taught him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the...
Page 193 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page 37 - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high ; one vessel of water rarefied 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 re-fill 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.
Page 317 - ... this point they were hid in darkness. The clanking of the chains, the groaning of the pumps, the hallooing of the miners, the creaking of the blocks and wheels, the trampling of horses, the beating of the hammers, and the loud and frequent subterraneous thunder from the blasting of the rocks by gunpowder, in the midst of all this scene of excavation and uproar, produced an effect which no stranger can behold unmoved. We descended with two of the miners, and our interpreter, into this abyss.
Page 209 - Come, bright Improvement ! on the car of Time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime ; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore.
Page 310 - The plumage of the mocking-bird, though none of the homeliest, has nothing gaudy or brilliant in it ; and, had he nothing else to recommend him, would scarcely entitle him to notice; but his figure is well proportioned, and even handsome. The ease, elegance, and rapidity of his movements, the animation of his eye, and the intelligence he displays in listening and laying up lessons from almost every species of the feathered creation within his hearing, arc really surprising, and mark the peculiarity...
Page 318 - As we descended farther from the surface, large masses of ice appeared, covering the sides of the precipices. Ice is raised in the buckets with the ore and rubble of the mine : it has also accumulated in such quantity in some of the lower chambers, that there are places where it is fifteen fathoms thick, and no change of temperature above prevents its increase.
Page 310 - In his native groves, mounted on the top of a tall bush or half-grown tree, in the dawn of dewy morning, while the woods are already vocal with a multitude of warblers, his admirable song rises preeminent over every competitor. The ear can listen to his music alone, to which that of all the others seems a mere accompaniment.
Page 310 - ... for half an hour, or an hour, at a time. His expanded wings and tail, glistening with white, and the buoyant gaiety of...