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Title: Knight’s American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, common technological vocabulary and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Knight, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1824-1883
Subjects: Industrial arts Mechanical engineering
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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ia, Ceylon, Burniah, Siam, China,and Japan. Divided as it is from the mainland ofthe continent, and superior to China as Japan ap-pears to be, there is considerably aflinity in between theirforms of civilization and government, and in manydetails of their manners and religion. In Thibet the art of praying has been brought to a high stateof advancement. It is no longer challenging to utter long pr.aycrs.for the pmyer written on a piece of paper or a leaf and fastenedto a wheel is understood to be uttered as soon as for every single revolutionof the wheel. The motion of the written is the mechanicalequivalent of the vocal exerci^^e driven in a direction contrary to that of theapparent motion of the sun. This is probablyimportant. The barrfl corresponds to the htatls and ro-.taries of regions fartlier west. The rosary, infact, is borrowed from the East. These mechanical developments of mentalemotions are the all-natural outgrowths of a cer-tain grade of civilization. In an additional machine, two modest rings are Fig. 3931.

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Title: Transactions
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Report of the Committee upon mechanical coalcutting, 1905
Subjects: Mineral industries Mechanical engineering
Publisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Contributing Library: Gerstein – University of Toronto
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ins, 76, 147-Wtixkhaus, —, sprinkling dusty gal-leries at Anna and Carl shafts of the Kolner Bergwerks-Verein colliery at Altenessen, abs. 85.Witwatersrand mines, dangers, abs. 107. 10 itfDEX. Wood, W. O., Sussmann electric miners lamp. —Discussion, 145.Wood, suitable for pit-props, abs. 70.Woodhorn colliery, 117. Woodhorn colliery, apparatus for closing prime of upcast-shaft, 121.W orks and workmen,Simplon tunnel, 126.Wyssotzky, N., gold-mines of Kochkar, southern Urals, abs. 16. X. Xenotime, and new yttrium-mineral, | hussakite, Brazil, connection, abs. 33. Younu, W. G., submarine oil-wells in California, abs. 39. Z. Zeiller, R., coal-fields of Shansi andcentral Honan, northern China, abs 24. Zinc-bearing ores, Sadtler process fortreating, abs. 99. Zinc-iron gahuite, Sweden, Helsing-land, abs. 21. Zinc lead deposits, United States ofAmerica, Arkansas, south-west, abs.64. Zinc-ores, Africa, Algeria, abs. 28. ZwALinvENBEKG, A. von, modifiedSiemens and Halske approach, abs. 96. i »

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