The Edinburgh Journal of Science, 第 2 卷Thomas Clark, 1825 |
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第 94 頁 - Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A ruddy gem of changeful light, Bound on the dusky brow of night, The seaman bids my lustre hail, And scorns to strike his timorous. sail.
第 11 頁 - An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the philosopher calleth it, infra spheeram activitatis, which is but at such a distance. But this way hath no bounder, if the vessels be strong enough ; for I have taken a piece of a whole cannon, whereof the end was burst, and filled it...
第 11 頁 - I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty foot 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.
第 10 頁 - A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected...
第 11 頁 - ... hours it burst, and made a great crack : — So that having a way to make my vessels, so that they are strengthened by the force within them, and the one to fill after the other, I have seen the water run like a constant fountain stream forty feet high.
第 191 頁 - I found that almost all bodies in which the combustion was imperfect, such as paper, linen, cotton, &c. gave a light in which the homogeneous yellow rays predominated ; that the quantity of yellow light increased with the humidity of these bodies ; and that a great proportion of the same light was generated, when various flames were urged mechanically by a blowpipe or a pair of bellows.
第 126 頁 - The grooves on the typical stereo record consist of "walls" that are cut at right angles to each other and at an angle of 45 degrees with respect to the surface of the record (Fig. 23-15). Each of the walls is then varied in accordance with the sound "pattern" that has been recorded upon the record.
第 196 頁 - Science, ser. 1, I. p. 105. 2. On the Dispersion of Stony Fragments remote from their native Beds, as displayed in a Stratum of Loam near Manchester.
第 195 頁 - Having purchased a piece of ground in a retired place on the banks of the river Doubs, near the Brenets, where his establishment is at present situated, he constructed, with his own hands, a furnace capable of melting at one time two hundred weight of glass, and settled there with his family on a very economical plan, in order to dedicate...
第 195 頁 - Guinand's glass varies almost at every casthig, while, on the other hand, that of each casting is of such homogeneity, that the refractive force . of two pieces taken indifferently, one from the top and the other from the bottom of the crucible, is absolutely the same.