The School of Mines Quarterly, Volume 6Columbia University, 1884 |
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acid Address alloy amount angles arch assay Batopilas bottom Brooklyn carbonate cast cent Chem Chemist Chemistry Columbia College Committee constructed contains copper crucible Denver deposit East edge Egypt El-Lahun excavated Fayoum feet floor friction clutch friction surfaces furnace Gizeh glacial glaciers Gold heat height Herodotus hill hoisting inch iodine Iridium Iridosmine iron kilos Lake limestone manganese masonry mass matte melted metal method miles mineral Mining Engineer Moris Nile observations obtained operation Osmium oxide Ph.D Phospho-Iridium Phosphorus pillar Plate Platinum practical precipitate Prof pulley Pyramid of Cheops quantity QUARTERLY revolutions per minute rock Room sample sand School of Mines shaft side silver Silver Islet slag solution specific gravity square steel stone Street sulphate sulphur Survey temperature thick tion tons tunnel unit strain walls West William York City
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Page 76 - I visited this place, and found it to surpass description; for if all the walls and other great works of the Greeks could be put together in one, they would not equal, either for labour or expense, this Labyrinth; and yet the temple of Ephesus is a building worthy of note, and so is the temple of Samos.
Page 192 - ... second covering was added, stone by stone, on the outside of the kernel ; a third to this second ; and to this even a fourth ; and the mass of the giant building grew greater the longer the king enjoyed existence. And then, at last, when it became almost impossible to extend the area of the pyramid further, a casing of hard stone, polished like glass, and fitted accurately into the angles of the steps, covered the vast mass of the king's sepulchre, presenting a gigantic triangle on each of its...
Page 76 - It took ten years' oppression of the people to make the causeway for the conveyance of the stones, a work not much inferior, in my judgment, to the pyramid itself. This causeway is five furlongs l in length, ten fathoms 2 wide, and in height, at the highest part, eight fathoms.
Page 203 - Nor can any one, in observing the great superincumbent weight applied to the haunches, suppose that this style of building is devoid of strength, and of the usual durability of an Egyptian fabric, or pronounce it to be ill-suited to the purpose for which it was erected, the support of the friable rock of the mountain, within whose excavated base it stood, and which threatened to let fall its crumbling masses on its summit. The entrance to these vaulted chambers is by a granite doorway ; and the first,...
Page 76 - There is an inscription in Egyptian characters on the pyramid which records the quantity of radishes, onions, and garlic consumed by the labourers who constructed it; and I perfectly well remember that the interpreter who read the writing to me said that the money expended in this way was 1600 talents of silver. If this then is a true record, what a vast sum must have been spent on the iron tools...
Page 77 - The measure of its circumference is sixty schoanes, or three thousand six hundred furlongs, which is equal to the entire length of Egypt along the sea-coast. The lake stretches in its longest direction from north to south, and in its deepest parts is of the depth of fifty fathoms.
Page 271 - ... for there was an excess in the rock on the right hand (and on the left). And after that on the day of...
Page 205 - Thus the affliction of Egypt endured for the space of one hundred and six years, during the whole of which time the temples were shut up and never opened. The Egyptians so detest the memory of these kings that they do not much like even to mention their names.
Page 283 - WRIGHT (TW)- A Treatise on the Adjustment of Observations. With applications to Geodetic Work, and other Measures of Precision.
Page 160 - Those present resolved to form themselves into a committee, with power to add to their number, in order to collect a fund for the benefit of Mrs. Watts and those of her children who are not of an age to provide for their own support. Dr. Atkinson consented to act as secretary, and Dr. Perkin, President of the Chemical Society, as treasurer.