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Rock BlastingRock Blasting - A Practical Treatise on the Means Employed in Blasting Rocks for Industrial PurposesDuring the past decade, numerous and great changes have taken place in the system followed and the methods adopted for blasting rocks in industrial operations. The introduction of the...
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NetWorld! What People Are Really Doing on the Internet and What It Means to YouNetWorld! What People Are Really Doing on the Internet and What It Means to YouFootnotes appeared in a separate section at the end of the text, with the note number restarting for each chapter. In this version, those numbers are retained, but are prefixed...
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Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt BookMiss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book - Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic EconomyThe following objects are aimed at in this work: First, to furnish an original collection of receipts, which shall embrace a great variety of simple and well-cooked dishes, designed...
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Balloons, Airships, and Flying MachinesBalloons, Airships, and Flying MachinesOne November night in the year 1782, so the story runs, two brothers sat over their winter fire in the little French town of Annonay, watching the grey smoke-wreaths from the hearth curl up the wide chimney. Their names were...
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The Food Question: Health and EconomyThe Food Question: Health and Economy"Eat ye that which is good." "That thou mayest prosper and be in health." "Eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness." "Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost." This book was planned before...
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Mariner Mission to VenusMariner Mission to VenusPrepared for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration BY THE STAFF, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology COMPILED BY HAROLD J. WHEELOCK FOREWORD BY W. H. PICKERING, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology This book describes one phase...
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Lightning Conductors: Their History, Nature, and Mode of ApplicationLightning Conductors: Their History, Nature, and Mode of ApplicationThe want in England of a good practical work on Lightning Conductors, accessible to both the professional and non-professional reader, has long been a subject of remark. That there are English works bearing more or less...
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Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der FliegekunstDer Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst - Ein Beitrag zur Systematik der Flugtechnik Es scheint, als ob die Forschung auf dem Gebiete des aktiven Fliegens durch ungnstige Umstnde in Bahnen gelenkt worden sei, welche fast resultatlos verlaufen, indem die Ergebnisse dieser Forschung die wirkliche...
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Time and Clocks: A Description of Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring TimeTime and Clocks: A Description of Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring TimeWhen we read the works of Homer, or Virgil, or Plato, or turn to the later productions of Dante, of Shakespeare, of Milton, and the host of writers and poets who have...
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The Birth and Babyhood of the TelephoneThe Birth and Babyhood of the TelephoneThomas A. Watson was born on January 18, 1854, in Salem, Massachusetts, and died December 13, 1934, at more than four-score years. At the age of 13 he left school and went to work in a store. Always...
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Discoveries and Inventions of the 19th CenturyDiscoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century Only by knowledge of Natures laws can man subjugate her powers and appropriate her materials for his own purposes. The whole history of arts and inventions is a continued comment on this text; and since the knowledge...
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Dirty Dustbins and Sloppy StreetsDirty Dustbins and Sloppy Streets - A Practical Treatise on the Scavenging and Cleansing of Cities and TownsSome portions of the following pages have already appeared in the monthly numbers of the Sanitary Engineer, and the complete work is now published with a view...
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Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and ProgressGunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and ProgressThe following works are frequently quoted, and are only designated by the authors name. Thus, Elliot, ii. 75, means Sir H. M. Elliots Hist. of India, as told, &c. &c., vol. ii. p. 75. Explosion.The sudden and violent...
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Gasoline and Oil Stoves, "New Process" and "Standard." 1901Gasoline and Oil Stoves, "New Process" and "Standard." 1901In presenting this catalogue to the trade, we beg to call attention to the completeness in detail of the various lines herein represented, embracing the largest variety of the latest improved cooking devices which inventive genius...
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Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Civil EngineersAutobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers - Comprising the history of his professional life, together with reminiscences dating from the commencement of the century to the present time.The following Autobiography was written by Sir John Rennie...
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Practical Methods of Sewage Disposal for Residences, Hotels and InstitutionsPractical Methods of Sewage Disposal for Residences, Hotels and InstitutionsThe problem of sewage disposal for a single house differs from the corresponding problem for a city chiefly in two ways: first, because in the city it is becoming, if it has not, indeed, already...
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The Jacquard Machine Analyzed and ExplainedThe Jacquard Machine Analyzed and Explained - With an appendix on the preparation of jacquard cards, and practical hints to learners of jacquard designingVery little has been written upon the Jacquard machine, and the fabrics produced by it; and nothing at all has been...
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How to Make CandyHow to Make Candy - A Complete Hand Book for Making All Kinds of Candy, Ice Cream, Syrups, Essences, Etc., Etc. I have never seen a health warning on a book before but I have been asked to provide one here. Some of the...
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Camp Cookery. How to Live in CampCamp Cookery. How to Live in CampThe first thing to parties bent on roughing it is the selection of a tent, which can be hired of any of the sail-makers, for any length of time, and at a reasonable price. For a party of...
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Bamboo, Considered as a Paper-making MaterialBamboo, Considered as a Paper-making Material - With remarks upon its cultivation and treatment. Supplemented by a consideration of the present position of the paper trade in relation to the supply of raw material.Of all the fibre-yielding plants known to botanical science there is...
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