The Technical World Magazine, Volume 4Technical World Company, 1906 |
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Page 35
... thing was familiar , and we had evidently passed beyond the mountains and were above a broad plain . I did , they were as amazed as I , for di- rectly above us floated a tremendous globe which we instantly recognized as a map of the ...
... thing was familiar , and we had evidently passed beyond the mountains and were above a broad plain . I did , they were as amazed as I , for di- rectly above us floated a tremendous globe which we instantly recognized as a map of the ...
Page 36
... things have been for years overlooked by scien- tists in search of greater fields to con- quer . It is within less ... thing could not be expected to obstruct enough of the heat of the sun to produce such a condition . Puzzled , I myself ...
... things have been for years overlooked by scien- tists in search of greater fields to con- quer . It is within less ... thing could not be expected to obstruct enough of the heat of the sun to produce such a condition . Puzzled , I myself ...
Page 38
... . " That's the reason it has never been discovered , " he said ; " because astrono- mers have always been looking for things farther away , ever forgetting the fact I ' F the average man be asked how the 38 THE TECHNICAL WORLD MAGAZINE.
... . " That's the reason it has never been discovered , " he said ; " because astrono- mers have always been looking for things farther away , ever forgetting the fact I ' F the average man be asked how the 38 THE TECHNICAL WORLD MAGAZINE.
Page 40
... thing , when you come to think of it , that so important a branch of commercially important scientific work as the making of charts of the coasts and the bodies of water of this country , should be so little known and understood . If it ...
... thing , when you come to think of it , that so important a branch of commercially important scientific work as the making of charts of the coasts and the bodies of water of this country , should be so little known and understood . If it ...
Page 42
... thing in the morning , after the weather prophets have assured the topog- rapher in charge of the party that no im- mediate rain is in prospect , is to load all the instruments into the launch . The party then proceeds to the signal ...
... thing in the morning , after the weather prophets have assured the topog- rapher in charge of the party that no im- mediate rain is in prospect , is to load all the instruments into the launch . The party then proceeds to the signal ...
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