Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts, Svazek 5

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The Institute, 1892
Vol. 8-14 include "Review of American chemical research" edited by Arthur A. Noyes.

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Strana 373 - Roll, Jordan, roll ! Roll, Jordan, roll ! I want to go to heaven when I die To hear old Jordan roll.
Strana 317 - That the tables in the schedule hereto annexed shall be recognized in the construction of contracts and in all legal proceedings as establishing in terms of the weights and measures now in use in the United States the equivalents of the weights and measures expressed therein in terms of the metric system...
Strana 215 - June 10, 1891, but not hitherto published. In the investigation described in it a method was employed which was originally proposed by one of the writers a number of years since in a paper read at the Philadelphia Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and published in abstract in the Proceedings for 1884, Vol.
Strana 280 - On the Strength of Cast-Iron Pillars, with Tables for the use of Engineers, Architects, and Builders.
Strana 17 - ... pounds per square inch, the initial tension being usually greater near the top than near the bottom. The reason for this difference is not clear; but it may be due to greater heat at the top of the pit, outside the mold, than at the bottom, allowing less exterior cooling of the casting at the top.
Strana 282 - ... at such an elevation as to be free, so far as practicable, from the impediments to accurate observations which occur in the observatories now existing, owing to atmospheric influences.
Strana 3 - Cross in the chair. The records of the previous meeting were read and approved. The chairman...
Strana 370 - Cs and C4 forks. Except in a very few cases, twelve successive sounds were transmitted. The calculated duration of the sound is in all cases given in terms of the vibration period of both notes. The percentages are given to the nearest whole number. The first column contains the serial number of the experiment; the second (I), the percentage of incorrect estimates; the third (C), the percentage of correct estimates; the fourth (D), the percentage of doubtful estimates ; the fifth (L) and the sixth...
Strana 212 - Fletcher of Genoa wrote to the authorities in Washington : " I do not believe the officials in any city in Europe could be more watchful or take more extreme precautions to ward off the epidemic than those in authority in Genoa. The result is that Genoa is in as healthy a state to-day as it is possible for human agency to make it, considering its peculiar construction and its proximity to the sea.
Strana 219 - ... but at all attainable higher speeds still retained its vowel character as e. The following tables contain the results of later experiments in which the speed of revolution was measured. Table I. contains results reached when a single vowel was sounded and reproduced at various speeds. The first column contains the serial number of the experiment ; the second, the name of the vowel ; the third, the rate of revolution of the cylinder of the phonograph when the vowel was spoken into the mouthpiece...

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