Science, Volume 14John Michels (Journalist) American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1889 Since Jan. 1901 the official proceedings and most of the papers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been included in Science. |
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... five curves and an average gradient of 5 per cent . No difficulty , however , is experi- enced here , and the cars climb these grades with a scarcely per- ceptible diminution of speed . The nature of the overhead work necessitated by ...
... five curves and an average gradient of 5 per cent . No difficulty , however , is experi- enced here , and the cars climb these grades with a scarcely per- ceptible diminution of speed . The nature of the overhead work necessitated by ...
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... five electric railways , com- prising about 450 miles of track , and the reports show that during the last year over eighteen millions of passengers have been carried over these lines . The cheapness of original construction and ...
... five electric railways , com- prising about 450 miles of track , and the reports show that during the last year over eighteen millions of passengers have been carried over these lines . The cheapness of original construction and ...
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... five degrees square , on a scale of one minute to a millimetre . The dimensions will be the same as those of the standard charts of Chacornac and Peters . The entire sky would be depicted upon about two thou- sand such charts . It is ...
... five degrees square , on a scale of one minute to a millimetre . The dimensions will be the same as those of the standard charts of Chacornac and Peters . The entire sky would be depicted upon about two thou- sand such charts . It is ...
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... five large and three small printing - presses , a 28 - inch paper - cutter , and a pump 2.5 by 8 inches , lifting water forty feet . Where there are many small industries in a limited area , as is the case in all large cities , the ...
... five large and three small printing - presses , a 28 - inch paper - cutter , and a pump 2.5 by 8 inches , lifting water forty feet . Where there are many small industries in a limited area , as is the case in all large cities , the ...
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... five tons of timber . When carefully measured by Dr. Jessop in 1829 , the girth of the tree at the ground was sixty feet , and at a yard above , forty - five feet ; the chief remaining limb was fifty feet long and its circumference ...
... five tons of timber . When carefully measured by Dr. Jessop in 1829 , the girth of the tree at the ground was sixty feet , and at a yard above , forty - five feet ; the chief remaining limb was fifty feet long and its circumference ...
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Page 170 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
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Page 154 - Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness ; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in ; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
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Page 240 - The Reconstruction Of Europe : a Sketch of the Diplomatic and Military History of Continental Europe, from the Rise to the Fall of the Second French Empire.
Page 175 - ... varying series of crops ; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments designed to test their comparative effects...
Page 154 - ... million years ago, or we should not have so much as the least observed underground increment of temperature. That is to say, I conclude that Leibnitz's epoch of emergence of the consistentior status was probably between those dates.
Page 44 - An Act to provide for taking the tenth and subsequent censuses' [approved March 3, 1879], provides that ' Schedule No. i (here reproduced) shall contain inquiries ... as to the physical and mental health of each person enumerated, whether active or disabled, maimed, crippled, bedridden, deaf, dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic, and whether employed or unemployed, and. if unemployed, during what portion of the year.
Page 11 - Bear constantly in mind that it is my wish and purpose that the hospital shall ultimately form a part of the medical school of that university for which I have made ample provision by my will.