| 1834 - 614 страници
...is thoroughly heated, immediately oil which a line of men and women, each provided with a pot full of cold water, suddenly sweep off the ashes, and pour the water iuto the heated groove, when the rock at once splits with a clean fracture. Square blocks of six feet... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - 1831 - 310 страници
...below is thoroughly heated, immediately on which a line of men and women, each provided with a pot full of cold water, suddenly sweep off the ashes, and pour...particulars of mineralogical detail.* (40.) Ex. 5. (:$5.) III. Hardly less simple and efficacious is the process used in some parts of France, where mill-stones... | |
| 1831 - 660 страници
...men and women, each provided with a pot full of cold water, suddenly sweep off the ashes, and pours the water into the heated groove, when the rock at...easily explained without entering into particulars of mincralogical detail. ' Ex. 5. Hardly less simple and efficacious is the process used in some parts... | |
| 1831 - 616 страници
...is thoroughly heated ; immediately on which, a line of men and women, each provided with a pot full of cold water, suddenly sweep off the ashes, and pour...clean fracture. Square blocks, of six feet in the *ifle, and upwards of eighty feet in length, are sometimes detached by this method. Such a block would... | |
| 1831 - 896 страници
...below is thoroughly heated, immediately on which a line of men and women, each provided with a pot full of cold water, suddenly sweep off the ashes, and pour...once splits with a clean fracture. Square blocks of 6 feet in the side and upwards of 80 feet in length,* are sometimes detached by this method, or by... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1831 - 514 страници
...the ruck at once splits with a clean fracture. Square blocks of б feet in the side and upwards of 80 feet in length,* are sometimes detached by this method,...easily explained without entering into particulars of mineralógica! detail." Mr. Herschel winds up this branch of the subject with the following just observation... | |
| 1831 - 444 страници
...of men and women, each provided with a pot full of cold water, suddenly sweep off the ashes, pours the water into the heated groove, when the rock at...a clean fracture. Square blocks of six feet in the aide, and upwards of eighty feet in length, are sometimes detached by this method, or by another equally... | |
| 1831 - 336 страници
...below is thoroughly heated, immediately on which a line of men and women, each provided with a pot full of cold water, suddenly sweep off the ashes, and pour...into the heated groove, when the rock at once splits \vith a clean fracture. Square blocks of six feet in the side, and upwards of eighty feet in length,... | |
| Samuel Drew - 1831 - 658 страници
...groove, when the rock at once splits with • clean fracture. Square blocks, of six feet in the Mil.', and upwards of eighty feet in length, are sometimes detached by this method. Such a block would weigh ncnrlv 300,000 pounds. — ïlertckeFt Ditcvurtt он \atnrai t-'fiiivxiHJiu.... | |
| British Museum. Department of Egyptian Antiquities - 1832 - 440 страници
...below is thoroughly heated, immediately on which a line of men and women, each provided with a pot full of cold water, suddenly sweep off the ashes, and pour...heated groove, when the rock at once splits with a clear fracture. Square blocks of 6 feet in the side, and upwards of 80 feet in length, are sometimes... | |
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