The Mechanics' Magazine, כרך 69Robertson, Brooman, and Company, 1858 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Agamemnon ammonia applicable arrangement axle boiler carriages cast centre coal communication connected consists construction copper cylinder Dated Dec Dated Feb Dated Jan Dated Nov Dated Oct described without engravings drum effect electric electric telegraph employed fabrics fixed frame furnace Gentlemen gutta percha harbour heat Henry Cort Improvements in apparatus Improvements in machinery india rubber invention inventor iron lever liquid London looms Lord Panmure machine machinery or apparatus mandril manufacture means mechanical ments metal motion mould obtained paper pass patent pipe piston placed plate present pressure printing provements Provisional Protections pulley pump purposes R. A. Brooman rail railway railway brakes ratus revolving rollers screw sewage sewers shaft ships side slide spindle spring steam engines steel substances surface telegraph cables Thames thread tion tubes upper valve vertical vessel W. E. Newton wheel wire Woolwich wrought iron yarn
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 327 - It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species.
עמוד 32 - Commission appointed to inquire into the best mode of distributing the Sewage of Towns, and applying it to beneficial and profitable uses.
עמוד 198 - It is a triumph more glorious because far more useful to mankind than was ever won by conqueror on the field of battle. May the Atlantic telegraph, under the blessing of heaven, prove to be a bond of perpetual peace and friendship between the kindred nations, and an instrument destined by Divine Providence to diffuse religion, civilization, liberty and law throughout the world.
עמוד 205 - The Association for the Prevention of Steam Boiler Explosions, and for effecting Economy in the Raising and Use of Steam.
עמוד 198 - The President cordially reciprocates the congratulations of Her Majesty the Queen on the success of the great international enterprise accomplished by the science, skill and indomitable energy of the two countries. It is a triumph more glorious because far more useful to mankind than was ever won by conqueror on the field of battle. May the Atlantic telegraph, under the blessing of heaven, prove to be a bond of perpetual peace and friendship between...
עמוד 155 - Strada, in one of his Prolusions*, gives an account of a chimerical correspondence between two friends by the help of a certain load-stone, which had such virtue in it, that if it touched two several needles, when one of the needles so touched began to move, the other, though at never so great a distance, moved at the same time, and in the same manner.
עמוד 5 - It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing; — not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied. It teaches a continual comparison of the small and great, and that under differences almost approaching the infinite: for the small as often contains the great in principle as the great does the small ; and thus the mind becomes comprehensive.
עמוד 448 - Original Papers, Reports, or Designs, of these, or other eminent individuals, are particularly valuable for the Library of the Institution. The communications must be forwarded, on or before the 30th of January 1858, to the house of the Institution, No.
עמוד 4 - How well may the young man entering upon his studies in electricity be taught by what is past to watch for the smallest signs of action, new or old; to nurse them up by any means until they have gained strength; then to study their laws, to eliminate the essential conditions from the non-essential, and at last to refine again, until the encumbering matter is as much as possible dismissed, and the power left in its highly developed and most exalted state. The alterations or...
עמוד 198 - The Queen desires to congratulate the President upon the successful completion of this great international work, in which the Queen has taken the deepest interest. The Queen is convinced that the President will join with her in fervently hoping that the electric cable which now connects Great Britain with the United States will prove an additional link between the nations whose friendship is founded upon their common interest and reciprocal esteem. The Queen has much pleasure in thus communicating...