The Journal of Science and the Arts, Volume 1

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James Eastburn & Company, 1817 - Science
 

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Page 305 - The Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts In the State of New York,
Page 2 - The gauze cylinder should be fastened to the lamp by a screw of four or five turns, and fitted to the screw by a tight ring. All joinings in the lamp should be made with hard solder ; and the security depends upon the circumstance, that no aperture exists in the apparatus, larger than in the wire gauze.
Page 71 - At first there came over only phlegm, afterwards a black oil, and then likewise a spirit arose, which I could no ways condense; but it forced my lute, or broke my glasses. Once when it had forced my lute, coming close thereto in order to try to repair it, I observed that the spirit which issued out, caught fire at the flame of the candle, and continued burning with violence as it issued out in a stream, which I blew out and lighted again alternately, for several times.
Page 262 - ... boiling violently ; it was shallow, except in the centre, into which we thrust a stick twelve feet long, but found no bottom. The hole not being perpendicular we could not sound it with a line. About...
Page 3 - When the inflammable gas forms as much as one-twelfth of the volume of the air, the cylinder becomes filled with a feeble blue flame, but the flame of the wick appears burning brightly within the blue flame, and the light of the wick...
Page 72 - I then filled a good many bladders therewith, and might have filled an inconceivable number more ; for the spirit continued to rise for several hours, and filled the bladders almost as fast as a man could have blown them with his mouth ; and yet the quantity of coals I distilled were inconsiderable.
Page 260 - Bludugs, as the Javanese call them. They are situated in the village of Kuhoo, and by Europeans are called by that name. We found them to be on an elevated plain of mud, about two miles in circumference, in the centre of which immense bodies of...
Page 277 - The littte wet which was left in one of the leather budgets was squeezed out of it, and some drops of water poured into the poor man's mouth, but without any effect. I began to feel that my own strength was beginning to forsake me...
Page 317 - A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Foot of the Horse; containing a correct Description of their Nature, &c. Also Rules of Shoeing, by which the ordinary Evils attending the Practice may be prevented. By Richard Hayward Budd, Vete
Page 277 - But my horse began now to tremble under me, and yet he was the strongest of the whole caravan. We proceeded in silent despair. When I endeavoured to encourage any of them to increase his pace, he answered me by looking steadily at me, and by putting his forefinger to his mouth to indicate the great thirst by which he was affected.

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