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ISBN:
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
A Calendar of Invention and Discovery
Author: CAL OF INVENTION & DISCOVERY
Author: John Cassan 1860-1936 Wait, CompPublisher:
ISBN: 9781360548135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
American Inventor
Author: A Calendar of Leading Experiments, 1918 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Wm S. FranklinPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365423065
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Excerpt from A Calendar of Leading Experiments, 1918 Our teachers of mathematics seem to know that they are responsible for a certain kind of training, and they are not ashamed to apply themselves narrowly in its accomplishment. Indeed, many of us who do not share their responsibility are inclined to think that mathematics teachers apply themselves too nar rowly, because their students, as we get them, are deficient in mathematical ideas although strong, it maybe, on forms. Physics teachers also have a definite responsibility, and our notion as to this responsibility is suggested by examples a and b above. The physics teacher, however, is strongly imbued with the idea that his function is to disclose to the student his (the physicist's) domain of nature, and he is inclined there fore to discuss results - Helmholtz's theory of the origin of the sun's heat, Lord Kelvin's calculations of the age of the earth, and many other things of equal speculative interest - but such things prematurely considered divert the student's attention away from elementary or irreducible ideas and conceptions with out which no analytical thinking is possible. Results are fine inventions For gentlemen who see. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
CALENDAR, 1882-3 (CLASSIC REPRINT).
Author: BRISTOL UNIVERSITY. COLLEGEPublisher:
ISBN: 9780666566386
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: The Annual of Scientific Discovery
Author: David A. WellsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666413239
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Excerpt from The Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art, for 1864 Last of all came the locomotive engine, that crowning achievement of mechanical science, which enables us to convey a load of 200 tons at a cost of fuel scarcely exceeding that of the corn and hay which the original pack-horse consumed in conveying its load of three hundred weight an equal distance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Annual of Scientific Discovery, 1865
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ISBN: 9781330532836
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Excerpt from The Annual of Scientific Discovery, 1865: Or Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art The most noticeable events in the history of the progress of science for the year 1864, have been, first and foremost, the remarkable discoveries made by Messrs. Huggins and Miller, of England, through the process of "spectrum analysis;" and the great additional light that has been thrown upon the subject of the "antiquity of the human race," and the contemporaneous existence of man with certain of the extinct animals. Other matters of prominent interest are the continued development of the business of obtaining and utilizing petroleum; the continued investigations of Tyndall and others in respect to the properties of light and heat; the application of photography to sculpture and topography; the investigations in respect to the use of steam expansively; sewage utilization; meat preservation and packing, and fish culture; and the results of unremitting experimentation in all that relates to military and naval warfare. An exceedingly interesting and suggestive paper will also be found in this volume, by Prof. Draper, in relation to the "Transitions of Matter." The discoveries of Messrs. Huggins and Miller, and especially of the first-named investigator, in respect to the nebulae, have been truly characterized by English authority as by far the most wonderful and interesting that have ever been recorded in the whole history of science; and cannot fail to excite the most intense interest. The nebulae which Mr. Huggins has observed, arc six of the so-called "planetary nebulae," and an equal number of nebulae with a more or less distinctly bright luminous centre. The intent of the inquiry has been, What is the condition of this nebulous matter? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Invention and Discovery
Author: The Reformation and Simplification of the Calendar (Classic Reprint)
Author: Albert Durrant WatsonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265741474
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Excerpt from The Reformation and Simplification of the Calendar In carefully reviewing the proposed system it will be seen that it. Makes a week instead of a day the unit of the calendar, and consequently the unit of civil time. The result is that all the chief divisions of the year have the week as an exact measure, begin with its first day and end with its close. The fact that the month is not an exact measure of the quarter is of no moment, as in business the quarter is seldom named without stating the number of weeks involved. The week being without any other sanction than that of its adaptation to human interests, is very appropriately named the unit of civil time, and should therefore be the chief measure of all the prominent divisions of the year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.