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Page 247 - Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
Page 101 - for the purpose of taking such steps as may be necessary to render the patent system and the funds derived from inventors more efficient and available for the reward of meritorious inventors and the advancement of practical science.
Page 108 - The Report of the Committee appointed by the Council of the Society of Arts to inquire into the Subject of Industrial Instruction : With the Evidence.
Page 34 - ... inches below the wound. This is left for a month when a fresh incision is made in the same place but deeper. A third month elapses and the operation is again repeated after which the gum is supposed to have attained a proper degree of consistency. The mountain sides are immediately covered with parties of men and boys who scrape off the large clear globules into a basket while the inferior quality that has run down the tree is packed separately.
Page 150 - I mix the fatty body to be operated upon with from a third to a half of its bulk of water, and the mixture may be placed in any convenient vessel in which it can be subjected to the action of heat, to a temperature about the same as that of melting lead until the operation is complete ; and the vessel must be closed, so that the requisite amount of pressure may be applied to prevent the conversion of the water into steam.
Page 167 - Savery's engine, viz. the danger of bursting the boiler, and the difficulty of making the joints tight, and also that a great part of the power of the steam would be lost, because no vacuum was formed to assist the descent of the piston.
Page 94 - Another man receives the leaves as they are planed, and with his thumb-nail loosens and gathers the fibres about the middle of the leaf, which enables him by one effort to detach the whole of them from the outer skin. The fibres are next steeped in water for some time, after which they are washed, in order to free them from the matter that still adheres and binds them together.
Page 132 - ... the whole internal capacity, including all those parts of a vessel which, being under cover of permanent decks, are available for stowage.
Page 43 - ... farm by being hauled out in the manure or otherwise. A row of osage, soft maples or other dense shading trees planted around the locust planting will prevent spreading. The growth of this tree is very rapid in all rich, loose soils. It attains its maturity at about 50 years and the usual size is about 80 feet in height and from 2 to 3 feet in diameter, depending largely on the distances planted as to its trunk formation. The largest and quickest matured specimens are found in deep, loose clay,...
Page 222 - The room was lighted by a window two feet six inches high, and three feet wide, in the bronze frame of which were found set four very beautiful panes of glass fastened by small nuts and screws, very ingeniously contrived, with a view to their being able to remove the glass at pleasure.