An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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... experiments and successive trials , and which therefore requires the independence of the artist , could be developed in a country where the restrictions of religion and the spirit of routine became the dominant genius of all the arts ...
... experiments and successive trials , and which therefore requires the independence of the artist , could be developed in a country where the restrictions of religion and the spirit of routine became the dominant genius of all the arts ...
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... experiments were made with two flat rulers of iron , 4 feet long and 2 inches wide , attached to the fixed plank of the apparatus used for the investigation . Four other rulers , two of iron and two of brass , 15 inches long and 18 ...
... experiments were made with two flat rulers of iron , 4 feet long and 2 inches wide , attached to the fixed plank of the apparatus used for the investigation . Four other rulers , two of iron and two of brass , 15 inches long and 18 ...
Page 352
... experiments on animal power afford , extracted from the celebrated Dr. Thomas Young's Natural Philoso- phy , vol . ii . 1342. In comparing the values of the force of moving powers , it is usual to assume an unit , which is considered as ...
... experiments on animal power afford , extracted from the celebrated Dr. Thomas Young's Natural Philoso- phy , vol . ii . 1342. In comparing the values of the force of moving powers , it is usual to assume an unit , which is considered as ...
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... experiments to deduce a theory . He made several models whose extradosses were equal in thickness , and divided into equal voussoirs , with piers suf- ficiently thick to resist the thrusts . To ascertain the places at which the failure ...
... experiments to deduce a theory . He made several models whose extradosses were equal in thickness , and divided into equal voussoirs , with piers suf- ficiently thick to resist the thrusts . To ascertain the places at which the failure ...
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... experiments , that even those whose surfaces are wrought in the best manner do not begin to slide upon the best worked planes of similar stone to the solids until such planes are inclined at angles varying from 28 to 36 degrees . This ...
... experiments , that even those whose surfaces are wrought in the best manner do not begin to slide upon the best worked planes of similar stone to the solids until such planes are inclined at angles varying from 28 to 36 degrees . This ...
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