Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851, Volume 2

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Robert Ellis (F. L. S.)
Spicer Brothers, 1851 - 320 pagina's
 

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Pagina 135 - And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled : and after that he must be loosed a little season.
Pagina 9 - Somnus" with closed eyes, and over the chin a wimple, which, on each side, terminates in poppies. In the interior of the head of the cradle, guardian angels are introduced; and above, the royal crown is found embedded in foliage. The friezes, forming the most important part of the sides of the body of the cradle, are composed of roses, poppies, conventional foliage, butterflies, and birds, while beneath them rise a variety of pinks, studied from nature. The edges and the insides of the rockers are...
Pagina 10 - ... sources of divine revelation and doctrine. On the extreme points of the arabesques that rise above the Evangelists, are represented the Christian virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity, and of Christian Righteousness. Around the entire centre stand in a circle the twelve Apostles. Peter is seen under Faith represented in the arabesque; on the right and left of him are Philip and Andrew; under Hope is James; on either side are Bartholomew and Simon ; John is placed beneath the figure of Charity ;...
Pagina 58 - Exhibition, exhibited a very remarkable instrument, called a typhoductor, or stormpointer — an instrument for obtaining by inspection the bearing and relative position of a revolving storm or hurricane. It is now a well ascertained fact, that great storms have a rotary motion, like a whirlwind. The theory commonly called the "law of storms...
Pagina 9 - Coburg and Gotha. One end exhibits in the centre the armorial bearings of Her Majesty the Queen, surrounded by masses of foliage, natural flowers, and birds ; on the rocker beneath is seen the head of ' Nox,' represented as a beautiful sleeping female, crowned with a garland of poppies, supported upon bats' wings, and surrounded by the seven planets.
Pagina 175 - ... smelting and refining are being adopted. Chemical Preparations. — The production of chemical preparations, especially of those which have been brought forward by the great progress of manufactures in general, has latterly, owing to this impulse, furnished important results. Bohemia has especially distinguished herself by the manufacture of colours, and of chemical preparations used in dyeing, whilst Vienna has not remained behind.
Pagina 30 - The evaporation of the boiler, when in full work, is equal to 1,000-horse power, of 33,000 pounds per horse; the effective power, as measured by a dynamometer, is equal to 743-horse power. The weight of the engine in working order is 35 tons, which does not include the tender, which, under similar circumstances, weighs 17 tons 13 cwt.
Pagina 179 - Cotton spinning and weaving has of late years been greatly on the increase in Austria, owing to the demand for home consumption. Bohemia, Lower Austria, and Voralberg, in the Tyrol, contain most of the spinningmills ; Bohemia has by far the greatest number of establishments for weaving and printing. The erection of power-looms has not been extensive, the greatest part of the articles produced being woven by hand by the inhabitants of the Bohemian mountain-frontier districts. The production of cotton...
Pagina 30 - It is capable of taking a passenger-train of 120 tons at an average speed of sixty miles an hour upon easy gradients. The evaporation of the boiler when in full work is equal to 1000-horse power ; the effective power, as measured by a dynamometer, being equal to 743-horse power.

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