The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 4 |
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... the middle of Sheet O o . PISCES V. in the middle of Sheet N n . Troughton's Microscope , & c . opposite the article MICROTEA . WATER WHEELS , opposite article MILL wind . Shuce Fig . 4 . Fig . 1. Ground Plan LIST OF PLATES ...
... the middle of Sheet O o . PISCES V. in the middle of Sheet N n . Troughton's Microscope , & c . opposite the article MICROTEA . WATER WHEELS , opposite article MILL wind . Shuce Fig . 4 . Fig . 1. Ground Plan LIST OF PLATES ...
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... wheel placed immediately in the line of the water's run . By this device , the current may be made to pass that particular spot with sufficient velocity to turn a wheel ; whereby water might either be raised out of the river , to supply ...
... wheel placed immediately in the line of the water's run . By this device , the current may be made to pass that particular spot with sufficient velocity to turn a wheel ; whereby water might either be raised out of the river , to supply ...
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... wheels and the bodies of coaches ; with the cabinet- maker , for inlayings , especially the firm and close timber about the root , which is ad- mirable for flecked and cambleted works . To render this wood the better coloured , joiners ...
... wheels and the bodies of coaches ; with the cabinet- maker , for inlayings , especially the firm and close timber about the root , which is ad- mirable for flecked and cambleted works . To render this wood the better coloured , joiners ...
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... wheels which have been gradually made for it ; but all which can be thought necessary for communica- tion , are the noun and the verb ; and even of the latter the necessity may be justly doubted . We think it next to certain that the ...
... wheels which have been gradually made for it ; but all which can be thought necessary for communica- tion , are the noun and the verb ; and even of the latter the necessity may be justly doubted . We think it next to certain that the ...
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... wheel of cast iron , and of considerable weight in the rim , wedged fast on the axis , and turns round with it ; it is by the momentum of this wheel that it continues to turn , while the crank and treadle are rising , and conse- quently ...
... wheel of cast iron , and of considerable weight in the rim , wedged fast on the axis , and turns round with it ; it is by the momentum of this wheel that it continues to turn , while the crank and treadle are rising , and conse- quently ...
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