The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed, 7. kötet |
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29. oldal
... increased accuracy of aim of the rifle takes place as before . In experiments made in 1850 with the Minié bullet , the ... increase the accuracy and the range of fire - arms . The essential properties of a gun are to confine the gases ...
... increased accuracy of aim of the rifle takes place as before . In experiments made in 1850 with the Minié bullet , the ... increase the accuracy and the range of fire - arms . The essential properties of a gun are to confine the gases ...
33. oldal
... increase its pliancy , is wrapped in the form required for welding up , ' for which spirally round a cylindrical mandril , in such a way as to form a tube , which may be slipped off the mandril at pleasure . Damascus barrels are ...
... increase its pliancy , is wrapped in the form required for welding up , ' for which spirally round a cylindrical mandril , in such a way as to form a tube , which may be slipped off the mandril at pleasure . Damascus barrels are ...
37. oldal
... increase in the exponent of the resist- trophe of 1871 , have been completed and are in full ance as the velocity increases . 89 GUNNERY . As the parabolic theory of gunnery , c 2 37 88 GUN COTTON . GUNNERY . disastrous and fatal ...
... increase in the exponent of the resist- trophe of 1871 , have been completed and are in full ance as the velocity increases . 89 GUNNERY . As the parabolic theory of gunnery , c 2 37 88 GUN COTTON . GUNNERY . disastrous and fatal ...
39. oldal
... increase of charge , increases the velocity in the proportion of the cube root of the additional length . The elasticity of the air affects its resistance , so as to exalt the effect on the shot as it passes through it , by causing the ...
... increase of charge , increases the velocity in the proportion of the cube root of the additional length . The elasticity of the air affects its resistance , so as to exalt the effect on the shot as it passes through it , by causing the ...
45. oldal
... increasing the size of guns . These difficulties were gradually overcome , so that it became possible in 1878 for ... increase the size of cannon powder from small grains to large lumps . A bag of onion- seed would fairly represent ...
... increasing the size of guns . These difficulties were gradually overcome , so that it became possible in 1878 for ... increase the size of cannon powder from small grains to large lumps . A bag of onion- seed would fairly represent ...
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497. oldal - The offence of burglary at common law is defined to be ' a breaking and entering the dwelling-house of another in the night, with intent to commit some felony within the same, whether such felonious intent be executed or not.
383. oldal - It may be here sufficient to observe, that INDRA, or the firmament, fire, the sun, the moon, water, air, the spirits, the atmosphere and the earth, are the objects most frequently addressed...
765. oldal - INFORMATIONS are of two sorts : first, those which are partly at the suit of the king, and partly at that of a subject ; and secondly, such as are only in the name of the king. The former are usually brought upon penal statutes, which inflict a penalty upon conviction of the offender, one part to the use of the king, and another to the use of the informer ; and are...
57. oldal - I fear, will become soon more difficult to be procured, from the destructive mode pursued by the natives in obtaining it. A magnificent tree of fifty, or more probably 100 years' growth, is cut down, the bark stripped off, and the milky juice collected and poured into a trough formed by the hollow stem of the plantain leaf; it quickly coagulates on exposure to the air; but from one tree, I was told that not more than 20 Ibs. or 30 Ibs. are procured.
105. oldal - A selection of curious, rare and early voyages, and histories of interesting discoveries, chiefly published by Hakluyt, or at his suggestion, but not included in his celebrated compilation, to which, to Purchas, and to other general collections, this is intended as a supplement.
123. oldal - In his voyage out he had observed the fact that the oscillations of a pendulum increase in duration as the instrument approaches the equator. At his return from St. Helena the king granted him a mandamus to the university of Oxford for the degree of Master of Arts, and he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This body sent him to Danzig in 1679 to judge of the observations of Hevelius, who maintained the superior accuracy of instruments with simple sights, in opposition to Hook, who advocated...
119. oldal - Apology for the Freedom of the Press, and for general Liberty, with remarks on Bishop Horsley's sermon, preached 13th Jan. 1793,
117. oldal - HAMBACH. 335 his account of a "Voyage of Discovery to the Western Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo Choo Island in the Japan Sea...
281. oldal - Catherine of Aragon — and the marriage of the brutal king, the very next morning, to Jane Seymour, the new beauty, his passion for whom must be regarded as the true motive that had impelled him to the deed of blood. Queen Jane dying on the 14th of October, 1537, a few days after giving birth to a son, was succeeded by Anne, sister of the duke of...
411. oldal - ... his pictures. Sometimes he rose to tragedy, not in the catastrophe of kings and heroes, but in marking how vice conducts insensibly and incidentally to misery and shame. He warns against encouraging cruelty and idleness in young minds, and discerns how the different vices of the great and the vulgar lead by various paths to the same unhappiness. The fine lady in Marriage a la Mode, and Tom Nero in The Four Stages of Cruelty, terminate their story in blood — she occasions the murder of her husband,...