The Year-book of Facts in Science and ArtSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1996 - Science |
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... Capt . John Arrowsmith . In the Philosophical Transactions , vol . xlvii . , will be found a relation of lightning passing over the parts of the masts painted with lamp - black and oil , without the least injury , while it shivered the ...
... Capt . John Arrowsmith . In the Philosophical Transactions , vol . xlvii . , will be found a relation of lightning passing over the parts of the masts painted with lamp - black and oil , without the least injury , while it shivered the ...
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... Capt . Saumarez , R.N. - Literary Gazette . NEW LIFE - BUOY . CAPT . Henvey , R. N. , has invented a life - buoy of the simplest but most efficacious description , and one which has already proved useful in practice . This life - buoy ...
... Capt . Saumarez , R.N. - Literary Gazette . NEW LIFE - BUOY . CAPT . Henvey , R. N. , has invented a life - buoy of the simplest but most efficacious description , and one which has already proved useful in practice . This life - buoy ...
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... Capt . Fitzroy's , are reasonable , till the assertions are fully substantiated by facts . Capt . Fitzroy has farther offered an hypothesis of the nature of the tidal motion of the waters of wide oceans , different from the hypothesis ...
... Capt . Fitzroy's , are reasonable , till the assertions are fully substantiated by facts . Capt . Fitzroy has farther offered an hypothesis of the nature of the tidal motion of the waters of wide oceans , different from the hypothesis ...
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ration of this volume has not induced us to overestimate | 43 |
ENGRAVINGS | 176 |
Present State of the Thames Tunnel Face Title | 196 |
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