The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual Words of the World's Best Historians, Biographers and Specialists: a Complete System of History for All Uses, Extending to All Countries and Subjects and Representing the Better and Newer Literature of History, Volume 6C.A. Nichols Publishing Company, 1923 - History |
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Page 4447
... turned in the wind , or a mad clap- ping of hands when one of these rough contrivances first creaked beneath the force of a mountain stream ? -We shall never know . [ The time is too far back to permit of anything beyond imagina- tion ...
... turned in the wind , or a mad clap- ping of hands when one of these rough contrivances first creaked beneath the force of a mountain stream ? -We shall never know . [ The time is too far back to permit of anything beyond imagina- tion ...
Page 4448
... turned his attention to commonplace things long enough to invent a clepsydra that would an- nounce the hour by playing the flute . However this may have been , there was in use in the Greek world , about 300 B.C. , a clepsydra something ...
... turned his attention to commonplace things long enough to invent a clepsydra that would an- nounce the hour by playing the flute . However this may have been , there was in use in the Greek world , about 300 B.C. , a clepsydra something ...
Page 4451
... turned edgeways , and ef- fectually clears the opening for the passing of the weft . It is impossible to say how ... turning points , if not the greatest , in the history of human development , the first- birth of the germs of that ...
... turned edgeways , and ef- fectually clears the opening for the passing of the weft . It is impossible to say how ... turning points , if not the greatest , in the history of human development , the first- birth of the germs of that ...
Page 4472
... turned to sodium . . . . On August 14 , 1854 , [ he ] read a paper before the Academy de- scribing his electrolytic methods at length , show- ing several small bars of the metal , and also stat- ing some of the results already achieved ...
... turned to sodium . . . . On August 14 , 1854 , [ he ] read a paper before the Academy de- scribing his electrolytic methods at length , show- ing several small bars of the metal , and also stat- ing some of the results already achieved ...
Page 4473
... turned back to the use of the alkaline metals solely because the use of the battery to effect the decomposition was far too costly to be followed industrially . . . . [ Several attempts to perfect an electrolytic process were made . In ...
... turned back to the use of the alkaline metals solely because the use of the battery to effect the decomposition was far too costly to be followed industrially . . . . [ Several attempts to perfect an electrolytic process were made . In ...
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