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Scientific American, Vol. 82, No. 5 (1900) (1900)

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sO., for instance, will be The ‘‘ Manica” is a freight steamer of 2,733 tons gross 1,380 x 48 tonnage, and 11 knots’ speed, belonging to the Norton —— = 285 kilos. of carbon, or 317 kilo- necessary line. Ordinarily she runs from New York to the River 232 Plate. On the present occasion she was on a… … with 160 lire by the usual process. A part vanometer. The resistance of the selenium was found of this economy is obtained by using the to be 40,000 ohms in the dark, and when exposed to excess of carbon monoxide to heat the fur- diffused daylight orto a gas burner at a distance of naces for the…

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