 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
 | Society of Engineers (London, England) - Engineering - 1866 - 400 pages
...what he called the "spirit of coal." He says : " I kept this spirit in bladders a considerable time, and when I had a mind to divert strangers or friends, I have frequently taken one of these bladders and pricked a hole therein with a pin, and, compressing... | |
 | 1828 - 484 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 I distilled, was inconsiderable. " I kept this spirit in the bladders a considerable t ime, and endeavoured... | |
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