EditorialFactors affecting the climate regionally: an area directly at the sun receives more radiation, so its temperature will be higher than another area not so exposed to the rays of the sun.
EditorialA map of the world . Philips' Comparative Series of Wall Atlases. World relations. Relief of Land. (Political Divisions & Communications. Climate, May 1--Oct. 31. Climate Nov. 1--April 30. Temperature. Annual Rainfall and Range of Temperature with July...
EditorialTemperature and mortality of London for every week of 11 years (1840-1850). Report on the Mortality of Cholera in England 1848-49. [Drawn up by W. Farr.] [Registrar general's report on cholera in England, 1849]. London, 1852. Source: B.S.34/12 plate 4.
EditorialInterior of a Boiling-House. West India Scenery, with illustrations of negro ch. R. Jennings & Co.: London, [1836?]. The juice of the cane is conveyed in pipes from the mill to the boiling house, where it is converted into sugar. Here it is passed thro...
EditorialArticle on 'the sun motor and the sun's temperature.' Illustration: Ericsson's sun motor, erected at New York, 1883. Scientific American. Supplement. New York : [Munn and Co., etc.] February, 2,1884. Source: P.P.1612.fa, vol.XVII, no.422.
EditorialWhat is climate?' A 16th c. diagram showing zones of temperature. The Seamans Secrets, deuided into 2. partes, wherein is taught the three kindes of Sayling, Horizontall, Peradoxall [sic], and sayling vpon a great Circle: also an horizontall tyde table...
EditorialMarine: The Waterspout, 1870, Oil on canvas, 27 1/8 x 39 1/4 in. (68.9 x 99.7 cm), Paintings, Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819?1877 La Tour-de-Peilz), Courbet first witnessed a waterspout at Trouville, a village on the Channel Coast, in 1865 or 186...
EditorialChinese artists painting porcelain plates to be fired in a low-temperature oven. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Mineralreichs, Augsburg, 1828.
EditorialFactors affecting the climate regionally: an area directly at the sun receives more radiation, so its temperature will be higher than another area not so exposed to the rays of the sun.
EditorialFactors affecting the climate regionally: an area directly at the sun receives more radiation, so its temperature will be higher than another area not so exposed to the rays of the sun.
EditorialCAPTAIN BOYTON'S TRIP ACROSS THE CHANNEL: 1. A Rest before Starting. 2. Getting Temperature. 3, On the Way'to the Pier. 4. "He's Off." 5. Getting Temperature at Sea. 6. Breakfast. 7. Arrival at Boulogne. 8. An International Rub Down. 9. Boulogne, Keepi...
EditorialCOMING FROM THE FORGE. JOHN S. DAVIS. A forge is a hearth used for heating metals, or the workplace ("smithy") where the hearth is located. The forge is used by the smith to heat a piece of metal to a temperature where it becomes easier to shape.