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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... practice of this Society to begin each Session by a thoughtful review of its fortunes and proceedings during the past Session . That review takes in part the shape of a report from the Prize Committee on the communications submitted to ...
... practice of this Society to begin each Session by a thoughtful review of its fortunes and proceedings during the past Session . That review takes in part the shape of a report from the Prize Committee on the communications submitted to ...
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... practice of the agriculturist , who , however far he may be behind the mem- bers of other professions in some things , is far before them in his methods of protecting himself against adulterations . He buys his grain by sample , a mode ...
... practice of the agriculturist , who , however far he may be behind the mem- bers of other professions in some things , is far before them in his methods of protecting himself against adulterations . He buys his grain by sample , a mode ...
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... practice of Dyers and Calico Prin- ters , who successfully keep many of their processes secret , and do not , in many cases , regard the protection of a patent as worth paying for . Potters do the same . The history of pottery is in ...
... practice of Dyers and Calico Prin- ters , who successfully keep many of their processes secret , and do not , in many cases , regard the protection of a patent as worth paying for . Potters do the same . The history of pottery is in ...
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... practice on this voyage ; for , as may be seen in the tabular representation of the observations , measures were made of the rolling of the dinner tables on board the yacht ; the tables being hung on pivots with a heavy weight below ...
... practice on this voyage ; for , as may be seen in the tabular representation of the observations , measures were made of the rolling of the dinner tables on board the yacht ; the tables being hung on pivots with a heavy weight below ...
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... practice . In order to perfect the balance of some parts of the machine , which had left its maker's shop rather unfinished , I kept the sailors for several days working the driving - wheels while I was experimenting ; they laboured at ...
... practice . In order to perfect the balance of some parts of the machine , which had left its maker's shop rather unfinished , I kept the sailors for several days working the driving - wheels while I was experimenting ; they laboured at ...
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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...
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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.