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Strana vii - of Mechanical Engineers are to promote the Arts and Sciences connected with Engineering and Mechanical Construction, by means of meetings for social intercourse and the reading and discussion of professional papers, and to circulate, by means of publication among its members, the information thus
Strana 548 - realm of England, the measure of the king was made ; that is to say, that an English penny, called a sterling, round, and without any clipping, shall weigh thirtytwo wheat corns in the midst of the ear, and twenty pence do make an ounce, and twelve ounces one pound, and eight pounds
Strana 351 - 8 9 10 11 12 IS 14 IS 16 17 18 19 20 Pounds Evaporation per Square Foot Heating Surface per Hour
Strana 497 - in one side of the bath attracted my attention by remaining unmelted despite the great heat of the furnace, and I turned on a little more air through the fire-bridge, with the intention of increasing the combustion; on again opening the furnace door after an interval of half an hour, these two pieces of
Strana 616 - The legislator has no power over the properties of matter. He cannot give a new constitution to nature. He cannot repeal her law of universal mutability. * He cannot square the circle. He cannot reduce extension and gravity to a common measure. He cannot divide or multiply the parts of the surface, the
Strana 594 - measures, would ever compensate for the increase of diversity which is the unavoidable consequence of change. Decimal arithmetic is a contrivance of man for computing numbers ; and not a property of time, space, or matter. Nature has no partialities for the number ten : and the attempt to shackle her freedom with them will forever prove abortive.
Strana 770 - determination of 778 footpounds." The thermal unit is not the mechanical equivalent of heat. The heat-unit is the heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit, and is independent of
Strana 594 - attempt to shackle her freedom with them will forever prove abortive." . . . " The metre, very suitable for a staff, or for measuring any portion of the earth, has not the property of being portable about the person : and for all professions concerned in ship or house building, and for all who have occasion to use
Strana 659 - There is one great society alone on earth, The noble living and the noble dead." . In recent years we have enjoyed the genial society and kindly counsel of a noble living man, who has gone hence and taken his appointed place among the noble dead. The scenes which once knew him will know him no more; but in the hearts of his friends his sterling worth has