#hydraulics

Cybertooth Tiger

Favorite prey: RAM!

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Edwin Clark – Scientist of the Day

The first boat lift on the Canal du Centre in Wallonia, Belgium, opened for traffic on June 4, 1888.

  And this again leads us to a thought or two on what   ₁ neither solid, liquid, nor aëriform; a something of extreme tenuity; imponderable the characters of materiality and the whole was immersed in a vessel of water, and kept there for fourteen days   ₂   a something of dread and wonder, and a something of dismay, and a something, too, it must be confessed, of what might be called the sublime in hydraulics   ₃ as though there was a something of — we need not cite examples; sketches and first thoughts are of no small value at times —   how much has been lost of this in the more finished and completed picture. It is thus well to look back sometimes.   ₁

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1 “Royal Academy Speculations,” The Builder (London, July 31, 1880) : 131-132 / more 2 “On the Supposed Identity of the Agent Concerned in the Phaenomena of Ordinary Electricity, Voltaic Electricity, Electro-magnetisim, Magneto-electricity, and Thermo-electricity.” By M. Donovan, in The Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science (Fourth Series; February 1852) : 117-127 (121) / more 3 Isaac Taylor, “Personal Recollections, 1. The Cornish Coast Sixty Years Ago,” in Good Words for 1864 (London, 1864) : 8-19 (14) / more

aside — re: a shipwreck along the Cornish coast — an unfortunate Indiaman of 1400 tons, being “country-built, from Bombay [and having taken] a complement of its hands from the native maritime class.”

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Helha - "Toa" of Fire

If Nuparu had the personality of Syndrome.

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