Cyclopædia of useful arts & manufactures, ed. by C. Tomlinson. 9 divs, 3. kötet1852 |
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551. oldal
... battery . This furnishes the means for collecting large quantities of electricity , the effects of which resemble lightning itself . By means of a large battery at Haarlem , the metallic coatings of which were equal to 225 square feet ...
... battery . This furnishes the means for collecting large quantities of electricity , the effects of which resemble lightning itself . By means of a large battery at Haarlem , the metallic coatings of which were equal to 225 square feet ...
559. oldal
... battery , may be repre- for nothing appears to show that there was any idea sented by very high pressure steam compared with in the minds of the experimenters , of using the power low pressure steam . It is evidently much more easy thus ...
... battery , may be repre- for nothing appears to show that there was any idea sented by very high pressure steam compared with in the minds of the experimenters , of using the power low pressure steam . It is evidently much more easy thus ...
560. oldal
... battery . The wires which connect the battery w the instrument , or , if more than one battery be used , which join one battery to the next , are screwed into these terminals . The screw fixed into the last single copper plate is called ...
... battery . The wires which connect the battery w the instrument , or , if more than one battery be used , which join one battery to the next , are screwed into these terminals . The screw fixed into the last single copper plate is called ...
561. oldal
... battery with the moist earth , or with the sea at that place , the portion of wire bg becomes unnecessary , for on connecting the end a with the other pole of the battery , the needles will be deflected as before , the earth or sea ...
... battery with the moist earth , or with the sea at that place , the portion of wire bg becomes unnecessary , for on connecting the end a with the other pole of the battery , the needles will be deflected as before , the earth or sea ...
562. oldal
... battery rapidly with either wire , in one or other direction , so as to deflect one or other needle to the right or to the left , or he can remove the battery con- nexion , and leave the wire joined up in readiness for his correspondent ...
... battery rapidly with either wire , in one or other direction , so as to deflect one or other needle to the right or to the left , or he can remove the battery con- nexion , and leave the wire joined up in readiness for his correspondent ...
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474. oldal - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.
473. oldal - Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
415. oldal - ... that no sooner is a discovery or invention made than it is already improved upon and surpassed by competing efforts. The products of all quarters of the globe are placed at our disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and the cheapest for our purposes, and the powers of production are intrusted to the stimulus of competition and capital.
443. oldal - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
415. oldal - I confidently hope that the first impression which the view of this vast collection will produce upon the spectator will be that of deep thankfulness to the Almighty for the blessings which he has bestowed upon us already here below...
415. oldal - I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives, and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.
415. oldal - Gentlemen, — THE EXHIBITION of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.
512. oldal - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
415. oldal - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end to which, indeed, all history points, the realization of the Unity of Mankind!
415. oldal - ... of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities. The distances which separated the different nations and parts of the globe are gradually vanishing before the achievements of modern invention, and we can traverse them with incredible ease ; the languages of all nations are known, and their acquirements placed within the reach of everybody ; thought is communicated with the rapidity and even by the power of lightning.