A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for Raising Water, Ancient and Modern: With Observations on Various Subjects Connected with the Mechanic Arts: Including the Progressive Development of the Steam Engine ... In Five Books. Illustrated by Nearly Three Hundred EngravingsGreeley & McElrath, 1842 - 582 էջ |
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... land first occur ( in modern days ) in Holland . It is indeed the constant employ- ment of this element - wind - that preserves the Dutch from destruction by another ; for , as a nation , they are in much the same predicament they ...
... land first occur ( in modern days ) in Holland . It is indeed the constant employ- ment of this element - wind - that preserves the Dutch from destruction by another ; for , as a nation , they are in much the same predicament they ...
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... land - The construction of the lakes and canals of Egypt and China subsequent to the use of hydraulic machines - Pheno- menon in ancient Thebes - Similarity of the early histories of the Egyptians and Chinese - Mytho logy based on ...
... land - The construction of the lakes and canals of Egypt and China subsequent to the use of hydraulic machines - Pheno- menon in ancient Thebes - Similarity of the early histories of the Egyptians and Chinese - Mytho logy based on ...
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... lands ; and also from the great impor- tance and universal use of artificial irrigation . Battles were sometimes fought in one field , while laborers were cultivating unmo- lested the land of an adjoining one . Chap . 1. ] Hydraulic ...
... lands ; and also from the great impor- tance and universal use of artificial irrigation . Battles were sometimes fought in one field , while laborers were cultivating unmo- lested the land of an adjoining one . Chap . 1. ] Hydraulic ...
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... land of Israel ; for the Philistines said , lest the Hebrews make swords and spears . " SHALMANEZER , when he took Samaria , carried the people " away out of their own land to Assyria , and the king of Assyria , brought men from Babylon ...
... land of Israel ; for the Philistines said , lest the Hebrews make swords and spears . " SHALMANEZER , when he took Samaria , carried the people " away out of their own land to Assyria , and the king of Assyria , brought men from Babylon ...
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... land , Savary and Papin . modern devices , as are either novelty , or the principles upon comprised in this class . Re- Observations on cocks , pipes , In the fifth Class , we have noticed such practically useful , or interesting from ...
... land , Savary and Papin . modern devices , as are either novelty , or the principles upon comprised in this class . Re- Observations on cocks , pipes , In the fifth Class , we have noticed such practically useful , or interesting from ...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ... Thomas Ewbank Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1847 |
A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ... Thomas Ewbank Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1842 |
A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ... Thomas Ewbank Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1846 |
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Էջ 571 - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Էջ 44 - ... and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation.
Էջ 400 - For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
Էջ 40 - And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
Էջ 95 - Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
Էջ 44 - Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
Էջ 67 - The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket. The moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. That moss-covered vessel I hail as a treasure; For often, at noon, when returned from the field, I found it the source of an exquisite pleasure, The purest and sweetest that nature can yield.
Էջ 518 - When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was-, (but the servants which drew the water knew) the governor of the feast...
Էջ 428 - A Century of the Names and Scantlings of such Inventions, as at present I can call to mind to have tried and perfected which (my former notes being lost) I have, at the instance of a powerful Friend, endeavoured now in the year 1655 to set these down in such a way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in practice.
Էջ 85 - They also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the...