On Coal at Home and Abroad: With Relation to Consumption, Cost, Demand, and Supply and Other Inquiries of Present Interest; Being Three Articles Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, with an Appendix |
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... IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN SCIENCE , AND AS AN AID TO ADVANCED CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY PUBLIC LONDON LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . 1873 All rights reserved PREFACE . THE PUBLISHERS having determined to republish my recent ON COAL.
... IN THE LIGHT OF MODERN SCIENCE , AND AS AN AID TO ADVANCED CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY PUBLIC LONDON LONGMANS , GREEN , AND CO . 1873 All rights reserved PREFACE . THE PUBLISHERS having determined to republish my recent ON COAL.
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... science . Other countries have been and are more economical in the comsumption of coal in their boilers , and this , as well as the great cost of the fuel , should stimulate the inventiveness of our mechanical engineers . Some of them ...
... science . Other countries have been and are more economical in the comsumption of coal in their boilers , and this , as well as the great cost of the fuel , should stimulate the inventiveness of our mechanical engineers . Some of them ...
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... science holds out no hope of anything like it ; and the combinations and decompositions of chemistry are at present in this direction only vaporous and vague . It is melancholy to contemplate a necessary importation of coal to a country ...
... science holds out no hope of anything like it ; and the combinations and decompositions of chemistry are at present in this direction only vaporous and vague . It is melancholy to contemplate a necessary importation of coal to a country ...
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... science as a source of illumination for coal - pits , and two or three years ago a foreign savant appeared at Newcastle with a mining lamp on this principle . This invention gave a safe light , but too feeble and uncertain for practical ...
... science as a source of illumination for coal - pits , and two or three years ago a foreign savant appeared at Newcastle with a mining lamp on this principle . This invention gave a safe light , but too feeble and uncertain for practical ...
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... Science . All projects like those of Mr. Ansell might be there expounded and discussed ; and instead of mere local Institutes of engineers there would be a general gathering of mining science and skill from our entire coal - fields ...
... Science . All projects like those of Mr. Ansell might be there expounded and discussed ; and instead of mere local Institutes of engineers there would be a general gathering of mining science and skill from our entire coal - fields ...
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