Technical World Magazine, Volume 12Technical World Company, 1909 |
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... as dependable as the motion of the earth itself , which will whisk it across 3,000 miles of sea at a rate of speed far Copyright , 1909 , by Technical World Company . 3 SECTIONAL BALLOON RECENTLY BUILT IN GERMANY . It is claimed.
... as dependable as the motion of the earth itself , which will whisk it across 3,000 miles of sea at a rate of speed far Copyright , 1909 , by Technical World Company . 3 SECTIONAL BALLOON RECENTLY BUILT IN GERMANY . It is claimed.
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... earth again ; and by observations of clouds which Profes- sor Clayton has reduced to a fine sci- ence . The height at which a cloud ex- ists may be known by the sort of cloud it is . Thus we find stratus clouds at a height of 600 yards ...
... earth again ; and by observations of clouds which Profes- sor Clayton has reduced to a fine sci- ence . The height at which a cloud ex- ists may be known by the sort of cloud it is . Thus we find stratus clouds at a height of 600 yards ...
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... earth , and as we begin now to know , a vast host of unseen worlds or frag- ments with which the inter - stellar space about us seems to be crowded . So crowded are these that if a balloonist supplied with oxygen for breath- ing and ...
... earth , and as we begin now to know , a vast host of unseen worlds or frag- ments with which the inter - stellar space about us seems to be crowded . So crowded are these that if a balloonist supplied with oxygen for breath- ing and ...
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... as do the planets that La Place knew , nor does it spin serenely like a well bal- . anced top , as the earth and others do , but has a sort of wallowing motion that one might compare to that of a ship in bad. THE END OF THE WORLD 27.
... as do the planets that La Place knew , nor does it spin serenely like a well bal- . anced top , as the earth and others do , but has a sort of wallowing motion that one might compare to that of a ship in bad. THE END OF THE WORLD 27.
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... earth and all the tributary planets will swing with it through space , dead and dark . It is by no means impossible that one of these vast dark bodies , swinging through the universe at huge speed , will collide with our own system and ...
... earth and all the tributary planets will swing with it through space , dead and dark . It is by no means impossible that one of these vast dark bodies , swinging through the universe at huge speed , will collide with our own system and ...
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