In charge of another, would he not have to swallow tons and tons over and above the traditional peck of "matter in the wrong place" without a murmur?
It surrounds us on all sides, yet we see it not; it presses on us with a load of fifteen pounds on every square inch of surface of our bodies, or from seventy to one hundred tons on us in all, yet we do not so much as feel its weight.
The author shows that waves have sometimes raised a column of water equivalent to a pressure of from three to five tons the square foot.
When at last we stumbled under cover and up the stairs to where our clothing hung, it was as if a weight of many tons had been lifted from our shoulders.
There we brought-to; hoisted out three boats; and in about five or six hours, took up as much ice as yielded fifteen tons of good fresh water.
The largest of the two was four hundred and sixty-two tons burden.
It is estimated that in Boston, Massachusetts, between eighty and one hundred tons of mail matter are daily dispatched, and between forty and sixty tons are daily received; while at New York City this quantity is more than doubled.
This was quickly constructed and its capacity, which was also six tons per day, was contracted for before the plant was fully completed.
How much so may be judged from the fact that in the three thousand acres immediately surrounding the mills that I afterward established at Edison, New Jersey, there were over two hundred million tons of low-grade ore.
The great extent of the concentrating works may be imagined when we state that two hundred and fifty tons of material per hour could be treated.
Within a month this plant was making more than a ton a day and gradually increased its capacity until, a few months afterward, it reached its maximum of six tons a day.
More than one thousand tons of concentrated iron ore of fine quality were separated from sea-shore sand and sold.
A brig called the Active of 100 tons was bought; and on board it went Hall with another missionary called Kendall (grandfather of the poet) who had lately come out.
Three and a half tons of gunpowder were placed at intervals in the tunnel, and connected by wires with a galvanic battery placed a long distance off.
In October, eight thousand men had gathered in the district; in November, there were not less than twenty-five thousand diggers at work, and threetons of gold were waiting in the tent of the commissioner to be carried to Melbourne.
The average of the ships, however, will reckon only 30 to 40 tons or even smaller.
The Monitor carried eight torpedoes and severaltons of shells for her deck guns, while her fuel tanks had enough oil to keep her afloat for many days.
It was a vessel of a thousand tons displacement and more than three hundred feet long, capable of a surface speed of twenty knots an hour and propelled by twin engines of eight thousand horsepower.
It enveloped him and seemed pressing against his body like many tons of steel.
Here we have the remarkable fact that the waste macrospores, or larger spores of a species of Cryptogamous plant, occur dispersed in countless millions of tons through the shales of the Erian in Canada and the United States.
You wouldn't," growled Wallace, "if you had to shovel several tons of it off your sidewalk.
In November, when I saw it, the farmers were taking off the third crop of hay cut this season, and that crop was certainly not less than two tons to the acre.
When I speak of the number of tons, I meantons of dried hay.
She was one hundred and eighteen feet in length, and of about four hundred tons burden.
In those days the largest vessels of a fleet did not exceed one hundred to one hundred and fortytons burden.
A new vessel of three hundred tons has been built at New York for the express purpose of carrying passengers across the Atlantic.
Hundreds of tons of kelp had been torn from beds in deep water and rolled up into ridges on the beach.
The tridacna were afterward procured in a safe boat, thirty of them taking the place of three tons of cement ballast, which I threw overboard to make room and give buoyancy.
Forty-eight tons (tonneaux) of powder had been placed in the mines.
I think you had better take a few rich specimens with you, and should your funds run short they may give you credit if you tell them you have fifty tons of it ready for the mill.
Twenty tons of quartz like this we see would suffice to make us all rich men, and we know that there is double that at least.
By the employment of sand dredgers, which have removed millions of tons of sand, this difficulty has been overcome, but in deepening the Bar the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board have greatly added to the work which the ebb tide has to do.
The inventor claims that with such an apparatus many tons of material per hour may be conveyed with a comparatively small working air pressure.
To this plunger is attached a weighted case filled with one or manytons of metal or other coarse material.
A pressure from one to two tons per square inch is exerted, the lead is forced up through the die, and the pipe comes out completed.
Tons of Chemicals, Hundreds of Pine Trees Yearly Made into Matches.
And in the same year and in 1830 he produced those powerful magnets through which the energy of a galvanic battery was used to lift hundreds of tons of weight.
Hundreds of tons of stone per day can be crushed to just the size desired, and the machine may be moved from place to place where most convenient to use.
On another, a New York paper has turned off nearly six hundred thousand copies in a single day, requiring for their printing ninety-four tons of paper.
Every ship over one hundred tons is compelled to carry a pilot, who is responsible for her while she is in the difficult channel.
What man has used is but as a few spoonfuls compared with the vast energy of the tons of water flowing resistlessly and ceaselessly day and night down these precipices and onward to the sea.
Major Huse is buying and shipping 2000 tons saltpetre, besides millions of dollars worth of arms and stores.
One hundredtons rations, however, came up for them yesterday on the flag boat.
Yesterday twotons of Northern anthracite coal in this city sold for $500 per ton, to a church!
And yet there are millions of tons of coal almost under the very city!
As for having a steady platform, this ship weighs a quarter of a million tons and is held by gyroscopes.
It takes two tons of matter to charge the coil to capacity, and we're carrying twenty tons of fuel--enough for ten charges.
We have burned up two tons of matter recharging the coils, and are now using another two tons to recharge them again.
Between the two we'll run a flow of helium at two tons per square inch pressure to carry the heat to the molecular motion apparatus.
That means we'd have to lift about five million tons of mass.
We can escape between the hammer and the anvil as millions of millions of millions of tons of matter crash into each other.
Of their original supply of twenty tons of lead fuel, only ten tons of the metal were left, but lead was a common metal which they could easily pick up on any planet they might visit.
They had a lot of workmen bring twenty tons of lead wire on board this evening, and the distilled water tanks are full.
In other words, one hundred milliontons of matter disappear each second in that star.
We need at least four tons to spare, and we only started out with twenty.
We shouldn't need more than three tons if all goes well, but 'all' seldom does.
I can develop about ten tons as far as it goes, but the human body can't take more than five gravities, so we can only visit planets with less than that surface gravity.
They started the cycles, and, as Arcot had predicted, they took a full three days of constant slowing to accomplish their purpose, burning up nearly three tons of matter in doing so.
The falling off, however, was only relative; the mine was still an extraordinarily rich one, although it contained little more than a tenth of the gold that had been extracted from the first hundred and fifty tons crushed.
At each journey the horses had brought up about fifteen hundredweight; and as the work had gone on for nine days, they had, they calculated, something like fourteen tonsof firewood neatly stacked.
