A dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines, Volume 21867 |
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Page 220 - Judah : and he hath filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship. And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass ; and in cutting of stones to set them, and in carving of wood to make any manner of cunning work...
Page 167 - JACOBI, at St Petersburg!), has also made a discovery which promises to be of little less importance to the arts. He has found a method — if we understand our informant rightly — of converting any line, however fine, engraved on copper, into a relief, by galvanic process.
Page 589 - FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS. Heat and mechanical energy are mutually convertible, and heat requires for its production, and produces by its disappearance, mechanical energy in the proportion of...
Page 34 - These presses are worked in the Royal Mint by machinery, so contrived that they shall strike, upon an average, sixty blows in a minute ; the blank piece, previously properly prepared and annealed, being placed between the dies by part of the same mechanism. The number of pieces which may be struck by a single die of good steel, properly hardened and duly tempered, not unfrequently amounts at the Mint to between...
Page 589 - Joule to be the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of liquid water by one degree of Fahrenheit.
Page 628 - It consists of a large cast-iron cylinder, fitted with a plunger, from which a loaded weight case is suspended, to give pressure to the water injected by the engine. The load upon the plunger is usually such as to produce a pressure in the cylinder equal to a column of 1500 feet...
Page 221 - Sparta with a tablet of brass in his hand, on which was inscribed every part of the habitable world, the seas, and the rivers ; and to this he pointed as he spoke of several countries between the Ionian Sea and Susa.
Page 508 - The deposits of these heavier rocks have been formed on spots which were evidently lower than the level of the surrounding rocks; whilst on those parts which were higher at the time the deposits were formed, the higher trachytic rocks are found. As far as my researches have extended, the more quartzose conglomerates have been invariably found on the erupted rocks, whilst the stratified rocks which they had upheaved were only covered by the trachytic conglomerates. The pebbles of which these conglomerates...
Page 620 - An hydraulic cement may also be made, which will serve for the manufacture of architectural ornaments, by making a paste of pulverized chalk...
Page 199 - ... wood, such depressed part will again rise to its original level by subsequent immersion in water. . The wood to be ornamented having first been worked out to its proposed shape, is in a state to receive the drawing of the pattern ; this being put...