The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and Instructive Articles on Scientific Subjects, Volume 12James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas Robert Hardwicke, 1873 |
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... difficult for them to enter the French harbours than for smaller boats ; and therefore there will , I think , be a few rough days in the year when smaller vessels will have to perform the mail service . With this reservation , I have no ...
... difficult for them to enter the French harbours than for smaller boats ; and therefore there will , I think , be a few rough days in the year when smaller vessels will have to perform the mail service . With this reservation , I have no ...
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... difficulty of the channel passage , I should desire nothing better than Captain Dicey's ship to go across in . The objections are , that these vessels are unhandy , and steer badly , and that their form is ill adapted for speed . These ...
... difficulty of the channel passage , I should desire nothing better than Captain Dicey's ship to go across in . The objections are , that these vessels are unhandy , and steer badly , and that their form is ill adapted for speed . These ...
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... difficulty , except that it will require a great weight of iron , and that this will have to be met by increased draught of water . This is itself an evil where tidal ports have to be entered ; and it also takes up engine power . In ...
... difficulty , except that it will require a great weight of iron , and that this will have to be met by increased draught of water . This is itself an evil where tidal ports have to be entered ; and it also takes up engine power . In ...
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... difficulty , and when the proportion of gas reaches 3rd , respiration becomes impossible . : The products of the explosion are steam and carbonic acid , the latter a heavy gas , the presence of a small quantity of which in air is ...
... difficulty , and when the proportion of gas reaches 3rd , respiration becomes impossible . : The products of the explosion are steam and carbonic acid , the latter a heavy gas , the presence of a small quantity of which in air is ...
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... difficulty may be grouped under two main heads . One will include the processes of ven- tilation , by which the gas is diluted with common air to such an extent as to render it harmless : the other will take in all the contrivances for ...
... difficulty may be grouped under two main heads . One will include the processes of ven- tilation , by which the gas is diluted with common air to such an extent as to render it harmless : the other will take in all the contrivances for ...
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