American Mechanics' Magazine, Volume 1C. S. Williams, 1825 - Technology |
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... reader . com- We would not , however , be understood as prodigal in promises , but we shall exert our best judgment in ... readers ; we therefore varied it so as to embrace the publication of original matter , as well as selections from ...
... reader . com- We would not , however , be understood as prodigal in promises , but we shall exert our best judgment in ... readers ; we therefore varied it so as to embrace the publication of original matter , as well as selections from ...
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... READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . " A Mechanic " will please to accept our thanks for his valuable hints ; they shall be ... reader ; such as accounts of all new disco- veries , inventions and improvements with il- lustrative drawings ...
... READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . " A Mechanic " will please to accept our thanks for his valuable hints ; they shall be ... reader ; such as accounts of all new disco- veries , inventions and improvements with il- lustrative drawings ...
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... readers entire . From the readings in the foot -notes , which are those of the MS . , it will be seen that the variations between the two authorities are mostly immaterial . In one instance , however ( No. 88 , ) the MS . has substitu ...
... readers entire . From the readings in the foot -notes , which are those of the MS . , it will be seen that the variations between the two authorities are mostly immaterial . In one instance , however ( No. 88 , ) the MS . has substitu ...
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... reader for the present , meaning to leave to posterity a book , where- in , under each of these heads , the means to put in execution , and visible trial , all and every of these inventions , with the shape and form of all things ...
... reader for the present , meaning to leave to posterity a book , where- in , under each of these heads , the means to put in execution , and visible trial , all and every of these inventions , with the shape and form of all things ...
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... READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . To the use of the Sliding Rule , we shall shortly devote a few pages . SIR , A year or two ago , as I passed through the town of Carls- ruhe in Germany , I saw a machine the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal ...
... READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . To the use of the Sliding Rule , we shall shortly devote a few pages . SIR , A year or two ago , as I passed through the town of Carls- ruhe in Germany , I saw a machine the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal ...
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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...