Track Structure Model of Cell Damage in Space Flight

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...gallery the wall is also lined with panelling, containing most delicate carving, surmounted by an enriched frieze containing the carved inscription, Fear God, Honour the Queen, and intersected by slender shafts terminating in carved busts of the kings and princes. Springing from this panelling is a traceried cove, forming the support to the gallery; and on the compartments of the cove are emblazoned, on gilt grounds, the arms of the succession of sovereigns and their chancellors from the period of Edward the Third, when the peers first met as a separate House, to the present time, with the proper crests, helmets, and mantlings, and labels containing names and dates of appointments. The wood carvings, generally, require special notice. A few years ago it would not have been possible to obtain such an amount of carving in England, of equal excellence, at any cost. By collecting a large number of the best examples of the fifteenth century (as many as two or three thousand) for the constant inspection of the operatives, the men have been imbued with the true feeling pervading these works, and enabled satisfactorily to carry out the architect's wishes. The carvings were all first bosted by Jordan's machine (an important invention), and then finished by hand. The machines are extremely simple, consisting of few parts, and being entirely free from jointed movements. The lower or horizontal part is a double railway; one carriage or frame travels on a rail to and from the workman, and a second carriage or table travels on this frame at right angles to the first movement, so that by combining these two movements, the workman can readily work the table in any direction he pleases. On this table is fixed the pattern, and as many pieces...