The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, Volume 6Werner Company, 1907 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... hand , is peculiarly dry and parching , because it is both a northerly and continental current . Owing to the circumstance of atmospheric pressure diminishing from the south of Europe northwards to Iceland , it follows that S. W. winds ...
... hand , is peculiarly dry and parching , because it is both a northerly and continental current . Owing to the circumstance of atmospheric pressure diminishing from the south of Europe northwards to Iceland , it follows that S. W. winds ...
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... hand ; this wheel always turns in an hour , and the great wheel generally in 12 hours , by having 12 times as many teeth as the centre pinion . The centre wheel drives the " second wheel " D by its pinion d , and that again drives the ...
... hand ; this wheel always turns in an hour , and the great wheel generally in 12 hours , by having 12 times as many teeth as the centre pinion . The centre wheel drives the " second wheel " D by its pinion d , and that again drives the ...
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... hand ) of the clock , and describe the dial or " motion - work . " The minute - hand fits on to a squared end of a brass socket , which is fixed to the wheel M , and fits close , but not tight , on the pro- longed arbor of the centre ...
... hand ) of the clock , and describe the dial or " motion - work . " The minute - hand fits on to a squared end of a brass socket , which is fixed to the wheel M , and fits close , but not tight , on the pro- longed arbor of the centre ...
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... hand moves very slowly and rests a very short time , showing that +8 is large in proportion to 2a ; and in others the contrary . The late Mr. Dent was decidedly of the opinion that a short impulse was the best , probably because there ...
... hand moves very slowly and rests a very short time , showing that +8 is large in proportion to 2a ; and in others the contrary . The late Mr. Dent was decidedly of the opinion that a short impulse was the best , probably because there ...
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... hands in all weather , must be much larger than in small ones . For average church clocks with 13 sec . pendulum the ... hand has a " heart " near the end ; 12 large marks and 48 small ones make a more distinguishable dial than one with ...
... hands in all weather , must be much larger than in small ones . For average church clocks with 13 sec . pendulum the ... hand has a " heart " near the end ; 12 large marks and 48 small ones make a more distinguishable dial than one with ...
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