"Velocity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I considered ways I could get Goil near an airlock so I could shove him through, sans suit, and with enough velocity so that he would end up somewhere in the Coal-sack region. But I gave up the idea, conceding that it would be impossible; somewhere along the line Willy would ...
— Jack of No Trades • Charles Cottrell
... pedal when harking back in memory. And happy for us then that we did not know what it was going to end in. The sky behind us had turned inky black and it became evident that the storm which was coming would be no ordinary one. A wind sprang up that increased in velocity with a peculiar moaning sound. A strange light was in the air that made the white farm houses and barns gleam sharply against the dark sky. Nyoda looked with some anxiety at ...
— The Campfire Girls Go Motoring • Hildegard G. Frey
... a mill-yard should be of ample capacity not to cause an excessive loss by friction, their diameter being based upon a limit of velocity of ten feet per ...
— The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 • Various
... eclipse of the Sun, the Moon's shadow travels across the Earth at a prodigious pace—1830 miles an hour; 301/2 miles a minute; or rather more than a 1/2 mile a second. This great velocity is at once a clue to the fact that the total phase during an eclipse of the Sun lasts for so brief a time as a few minutes; and also to the fact that the shadow comes and goes almost without being seen unless a very sharp watch is kept for it. Indeed, it is only observers posted ...
— The Story of Eclipses • George Chambers
... Moisture before Entering the Drying Apparatus — Drying Apparatus, in which, in the Drying Chamber, a Pressure is Artificially Created, Higher or Lower than that of the Atmosphere — Drying by Means of Superheated Steam, without Air —Heating Surface, Velocity of the Air Current, Dimensions of the Drying Room, Surface of the Drying Material, Losses of ...
— The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics • Franklin Beech
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