All woods are more tenacious while green, and lose very considerably by drying after the trees are felled The only author who has put it in our power to judge of the propriety of his experiments is Muschenbroek. He has described his method of trial minutely,... Practical Essays on Mill Work and Other Machinery - Page 368by Robertson Buchanan - 1823 - 588 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 pages
...while green, and lose very considerably by drying after the trees are felled. The only author who lies put it in our power to judge of the propriety of his experiments is Muscheiibruek. He has described his method of trial minutely, and it seems unexceptionable. The woods... | |
| Robertson Buchanan - Mills and mill-work - 1814 - 178 pages
...5,200 Grain .... 6,50O Lead cast 860 Regulus of Antimony ...... 1,OOO Zinc 2,600 Bismuth 2,900 • " The only author who has put it in our power to judge...minutely, and it seems unexceptionable. The woods werdl all formed into slips fit for his apparatus, and part, of the slip was cut . away to a parallelepiped... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...woods are more tenacious while green, and lose very considerably by drying after the trees are felled The only author who has put it in our power to judge...apparatus, and part of the slip was cut away to a parallelepiped of one fifth of an inch square, and therefore one twenty-fifth of a square inch in section.... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...woods ire more tenacious while green, and lose very considerably by drying after the trees are felled The only author who has put it in our power to judge...apparatus, and part of the slip was cut away to a parallelepiped of one fifth of an inch square, and therefore one twenty-fifth of a square inch in section.... | |
| John Robison, James Watt - Astronomy - 1822 - 758 pages
...woods are more tenacious while green, and lose very considerably by drying after the trees are felled. The only author who has put it in our power to judge...apparatus, and part of the slip was cut away to a parallelepiped of ! th of an inch square, and therefore ,'ith of a square inch in section. The absolute... | |
| Arthur Ashpitel - Architecture - 1867 - 442 pages
...are more tenacious while green, and lose тегу considerably by drying after the trees are felled. The only author who has put it in our power to judge of the propriety of his experiments is Muschenbroeck. He has described his method of trial minutely, and it seems unexceptionable. The woods... | |
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