Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, Volume 5Neill & Company, 1861 - Industrial arts Vol. 1- includes the proceedings of the society. |
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... than the poor one . No doubt , there are many chemical products which betray , on analysis , their nature , and the mode in which they have been produced . Not many years ago , some rogues 10 The President's Address ,
... than the poor one . No doubt , there are many chemical products which betray , on analysis , their nature , and the mode in which they have been produced . Not many years ago , some rogues 10 The President's Address ,
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... nature of the rolling of a vessel at sea ; for , through the individual undulations , there run so evidently others of a longer period , and through those , others still longer . Indeed , I was never able to get any regularly recurring ...
... nature of the rolling of a vessel at sea ; for , through the individual undulations , there run so evidently others of a longer period , and through those , others still longer . Indeed , I was never able to get any regularly recurring ...
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... nature to solve , namely , given a discharge of 6750 cubic feet per second , to find what was the best section and slope to convey that body of water at such a velocity as not to tear up the bed , and yet prevent vegetation . The ...
... nature to solve , namely , given a discharge of 6750 cubic feet per second , to find what was the best section and slope to convey that body of water at such a velocity as not to tear up the bed , and yet prevent vegetation . The ...
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... nature with every mountain stream . The following dia- gram will explain this better : - Long discussions have been held on what was the best form of descent ; some advocated per- pendicular falls into cisterns , others inclined planes ...
... nature with every mountain stream . The following dia- gram will explain this better : - Long discussions have been held on what was the best form of descent ; some advocated per- pendicular falls into cisterns , others inclined planes ...
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... natural to the inauguration of new ones . Were we a people given to put faith in omens , we might well startle at thought of the unlaid Atlantic telegraph cable , the fractured Westminster bell , and the unlaunched Great Eastern Levi ...
... natural to the inauguration of new ones . Were we a people given to put faith in omens , we might well startle at thought of the unlaid Atlantic telegraph cable , the fractured Westminster bell , and the unlaunched Great Eastern Levi ...
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Page 184 - When the ear heard him then it blessed him, and when the eye saw him it gave witness to him : Because he delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon him: and he caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 48 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Page 56 - I know most about is, that the engines on board of all the vessels built by my father since the year 1852, a year memorable for a strike of the legal hands then employed in the engineering establishments of Glasgow, have been made by men who were originally house-carpenters or joiners — that many of the best workers in his ship-yard were hand-loom weavers, and that half-starved nailmakers from St Ninians, near Stirling, made passable riveters in about a month.
Page 184 - ... him : the blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon him : and he caused the widow's heart to sing for joy : he was eyes to the blind, and feet was he to the lame : he was a father to the poor ; and the cause which he knew not he searched out.
Page 151 - Answer to Sir David Brewster's reply to Messrs. Stevenson's pamphlet on Sir D. Brewster's memorial to the Treasury.
Page 96 - In passing out of air into water, the sine of the angle of incidence is to that of refraction, as 4 to 3...
Page 14 - Memoir of John Dalton, and History of the Atomic Theory up to his Time, London, 1856; Henry E.
Page 58 - I recall," he said twenty years afterward, ' ' some of the enforced companions of my apprentice days, I feel that I would make the greatest sacrifices rather than permit a -youth dear to me to encounter similar temptations.
Page 98 - The following donations were laid on the table, and thanks voted to the donors : — Skull of a New Zealander, presented by John Mitchell, Esq., Leith.
Page 40 - Commnuications, relative to inventions, discoveries, and Improvements in the Mechanical and Chemical Arts in General, and also to means by which the Natural Productions of the Country may be made more available ; and, in particular, to, — 1.