Records of Mining and Metallurgy: Or, Facts and Memoranda for the Use of the Mine Agent and SmelterSpon, 1857 - 304 pages |
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... Weight of Iron 280 Weights of Metals , & c . 282 Dimensions of Drawing Papers 284 Sizes of Slates 284 Alloys , & c . 285 Cubical Contents of Vessels Memoranda Joint Stock Companies Act of 1857 287 290 291 LIST OF ENGRAVINGS . Page ...
... Weight of Iron 280 Weights of Metals , & c . 282 Dimensions of Drawing Papers 284 Sizes of Slates 284 Alloys , & c . 285 Cubical Contents of Vessels Memoranda Joint Stock Companies Act of 1857 287 290 291 LIST OF ENGRAVINGS . Page ...
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... weight by use and attrition , whilst silver , lead , and copper , leave metallic stains on bodies which they touch , and soil the skin of those who handle them . Neither is there any metal which can be beaten out broader by the hammer ...
... weight by use and attrition , whilst silver , lead , and copper , leave metallic stains on bodies which they touch , and soil the skin of those who handle them . Neither is there any metal which can be beaten out broader by the hammer ...
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... weight . * " There is likewise found in the gold mines a kind of lead - ore which they call Elutia ( stream tin ) . The water which is let into the mines washes , and carries down with it , certain little black stones , streaked and ...
... weight . * " There is likewise found in the gold mines a kind of lead - ore which they call Elutia ( stream tin ) . The water which is let into the mines washes , and carries down with it , certain little black stones , streaked and ...
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... weight of brass with three or four pounds weight of argentine lead or tin . " * The alloys above described are merely modifications of bell- metal or bronze ; but it is not improbable that the ancients were acquainted with zinc - brass ...
... weight of brass with three or four pounds weight of argentine lead or tin . " * The alloys above described are merely modifications of bell- metal or bronze ; but it is not improbable that the ancients were acquainted with zinc - brass ...
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... weight and dimensions of the various specimens which have been examined , and endeavour to adduce such evidence as may show their great antiquity , without attempting to specify the precise dates at which they were employed . The ...
... weight and dimensions of the various specimens which have been examined , and endeavour to adduce such evidence as may show their great antiquity , without attempting to specify the precise dates at which they were employed . The ...
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Page 210 - ... it shall be lawful for the said lessor at any time thereafter into and upon the said demised premises or any part thereof in the name of the whole to re-enter and the same to have again re-possess and enjoy as of his or their former estate anything hereinafter contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page ix - Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace ; they are even the dross of silver.
Page 24 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery, down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 10 - It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
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Page 24 - Beaumont, a gentleman of great ingenuity and rare parts, adventured into our mines with his thirty thousand pounds ; who brought with him many rare engines not known then in these parts ; as the art to boore with iron rodds, to try the deepnesse and thicknesse of the coale ; rare engines to draw water out of the pits ; waggons with one horse to carry down coales from the...
Page 300 - This little volume should become the hand-book of every person whose duties require even occasional calculations of this nature ; were it only that it is more extensively applicable than any other in existence, we could cordially recommend it to our readers, but when they learn that the use of it involves only half the labour of all other Tables constituted for the same purpose, we offer the strongest of all recommendations, that founded on the value of time."— Mechanics