British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 11Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1821 - Natural history |
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... timber , with regard to its breadth and thickness . SCAPEMENT , a general term for the manner of communicating the impulse of the wheels to the pendulum of a clock . Common scapements consist of the swing wheel and pallets only . See Ho ...
... timber , with regard to its breadth and thickness . SCAPEMENT , a general term for the manner of communicating the impulse of the wheels to the pendulum of a clock . Common scapements consist of the swing wheel and pallets only . See Ho ...
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... timber in a timber building , and that on which the whole superstructure is raised ; and the window - sell is the bottom piece in a window - frame . SEMECARPUS , in botany , a genus o the Pentandria Trigynia class and order . Essential ...
... timber in a timber building , and that on which the whole superstructure is raised ; and the window - sell is the bottom piece in a window - frame . SEMECARPUS , in botany , a genus o the Pentandria Trigynia class and order . Essential ...
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... timber , in which to fix a sheave , and answering instead of a block . SHEEP , in zoology , a well - known ge- nus of quadrupeds , the horns of which are hollow , bent backward , twisted , and rugose ; the fore - teeth are eight , and ...
... timber , in which to fix a sheave , and answering instead of a block . SHEEP , in zoology , a well - known ge- nus of quadrupeds , the horns of which are hollow , bent backward , twisted , and rugose ; the fore - teeth are eight , and ...
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... timber is added between the ports at the gang- way , to make it the more convenient for the steps , & c . 165 6 159 ... timbers and the filling timbers between , and the room or openings between the timbers . Thus we find by established ...
... timber is added between the ports at the gang- way , to make it the more convenient for the steps , & c . 165 6 159 ... timbers and the filling timbers between , and the room or openings between the timbers . Thus we find by established ...
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... timber is added between the ports at the gang - way , to make it the more convenient for the steps , & c . on a straight line along the lower side of the. Tonnage of Merchant Ships . 1257 1000 818 544 441 329 Foreside of the foremost ...
... timber is added between the ports at the gang - way , to make it the more convenient for the steps , & c . on a straight line along the lower side of the. Tonnage of Merchant Ships . 1257 1000 818 544 441 329 Foreside of the foremost ...
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Page 1 - I scarce could turn to fall upon the ground, with my head to the northward, when I felt the heat of its current plainly upon my face. We all lay flat on the ground, as if dead, till Idris told us it was blown over. The meteor, or purple haze, which I saw, was indeed passed, but the light air that still blew was of heat to threaten suffocation.
Page 5 - Of the nature of those changes which take place in the Digestion of Food. Of the Chemical Principles of the process of Tanning Leather; and of the objects that must particularly be had in view in attempts to improve that most useful art. Of the Chemical Principles of the art of making Soap ; of the art of Bleaching; of the art of Dyeing; and in general of all the Mechanical Arts, as they apply to the various branches of manufacture.
Page 25 - Hence too it follows, that the infamous and unchristian practice of withholding baptism from negro servants, lest they should thereby gain their liberty, is totally without foundation, as well as without excuse. The l«w of England acts upon general and extensive principles : it gives liberty, rightly understood, that is, protection, to a Jew, a Turk, or a Heathen...
Page 11 - It is very probable that the great stratum called the milky way, is that in which the sun is placed, though perhaps not in the very centre of its thickness.
Page 3 - The distance between two points on the surface of a sphere is the length of the minor arc of a great circle between them.
Page 19 - To this head may also be referred the practice of what is called a set-off: whereby the defendant acknowledges the justice of the plaintiff's demand on the one hand, but on the other sets up a demand of his own, to counterbalance that of the plaintiff, either in the whole or in part...