 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...  Putnam's Home Cyclopedia ... - Page 201by G.P. Putnam & Co - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Henry James Nicoll - Great Britain - 1881 - 506 pages
...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...them with his mouth ; and yet the quantity of coals was inconsiderable. I kept this spirit in the bladders a considerable time, and endeavoured several... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon - 1882 - 514 pages
...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...them with his mouth ; and yet the quantity of coals was inconsiderable. I kept this spirit in the bladders a considerable time, and endeavored several... | |
 | Samuel Hughes - Coal gasification - 1885 - 334 pages
...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...them with his mouth ; and yet the quantity of coals was inconsiderable. "I kept this spirit in the bladders a considerable time, and endeavoured several... | |
 | Samuel Hughes (C.E.) - 1885 - 454 pages
...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...them with his mouth ; and yet the quantity of coals was inconsiderable. " I kept this spirit in the bladders a considerable time, and endeavoured several... | |
 | Raphael Meldola - Coal - 1891 - 224 pages
...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...them with his mouth ; and yet the quantity of coals he distilled was inconsiderable. " He kept this spirit in the bladders a considerable time, and endeavoured... | |
 | Sir Boverton Redwood - Natural gas - 1896 - 478 pages
...proximity of coal, Dr. Clayton distilled some of the coal and, with the " spirit," ho filled " a good many bladders . . . almost as fast as a man could have...the quantity of coals distilled was inconsiderable." Dr. Plot, in a " discourse on the sepulchral lamps of the Ancients," 3 says, that at " Pitchford, in... | |
 | Matthew Luckiesh - Electric lighting - 1920 - 424 pages
...obtained from a small amount of coal; for, as he stated, "the spirit continued to rise for several hours, and filled the bladders almost as fast as a man could...the quantity of coals distilled was inconsiderable." Although this account appeared in the Transactions of the Royal Society in 1739, there is strong evidence... | |
 | Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, Harold John Brocklehurst - Engineering - 1925 - 330 pages
...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...blown them with his mouth, and yet the Quantity of Coal I distilled was inconsiderable. I kept this Spirit in the Bladders a considerable time, and endeavoured... | |
 | Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, Harold John Brocklehurst - Technology & Engineering - 1925 - 332 pages
...Bladders almost as fast as a man could have blown them with his mouth, and yet the Quantity of Coal I distilled was inconsiderable. I kept this Spirit in the Bladders a considerable time, and endeavoured several days to condense it, but in vain. And when I had a mind to divert strangers or... | |
 | American essays - 1870 - 782 pages
...but the spirit, still ascending, blew up the bladder. I then filled a good many bladders therewith I kept this spirit in the bladders a considerable...and endeavored several ways to condense it, but in vain ; and when I had a mind to divert strangers or friends, I have frequently taken one of these bladders,... | |
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