 | 1842 - 934 pages
...phenomenon proceeds from the stronger pulses of the dense air upon the membrane of the drum of the ear. Much annoyance was at first experienced from the rapid combustion of the candles, but this was obviated by the substitution of flaj for cotton thread in the wicks. The temperature of... | |
 | William Newton - 1842 - 546 pages
...phenomenon proceeds from the stronger pulses of the dense air upon the membrane of the drum of the ear. Much annoyance was at first experienced from the rapid combustion of the candles, but this was obviated by the substitution of flax for cotton thread in the wicks. The temperature of... | |
 | William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington - Arts, Useful - 1842 - 580 pages
...phenomenon proceeds from the stronger pulses of the dense air upon tin- membrane of the drum of the ear. Much annoyance was at first experienced from the rapid combustion of the candles, but this was obviated by the substitution of flax for cotton thread in the wicks. The temperature of... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Industrial arts - 1845 - 312 pages
...phenomenon proceeds from the stronger pulses of the dense air upon the membrane of the drum of the ear. Much annoyance was at first experienced from the rapid combustion of the candles, but this was obviated by the substitution of flax for cotton thread in the wicks. The temperature of... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - Dwellings - 1850 - 276 pages
...workmen ; deaf persons recovered their hearing ; while others were sensible to the slightest whisper.* Much annoyance was at first experienced from the rapid combustion of the candles, but this was obviated by the substitution of flax for cotton in the wicks. * Many years ago, Mr. Roebuck... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - Chemistry - 1856 - 370 pages
...whisper—an effect due to the stronger pulses of the dense air upon the membrane of the drum of the ear. Much annoyance was at first experienced from the rapid combustion of the candles, but thk was obviated by substituting flax for cotton thread in the wicks."—(Supplement to Ure's Dictionary.)... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1858 - 474 pages
...to sixty-five and a half feet thick, he found it requisite to I 100 A. MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS. • devise some means of excluding the semi-fluid -quicksand...river, in South Carolina. So far as I have been able to ascertain, the results manifested in this case were identical with those recorded by M. Triger,... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1858 - 466 pages
...Trans, for 1817, p. 45, ct seq. Also, Works of Sir H. Davv, edited by Dr. John Davy, Vol. VI. p. 51, ct seq., London, 1840 devise some means of excluding...the candles, which was only obviated by substituting flnx for cotton threads in the wicks.• Similar phenomena were observed, a few years ago, by the engineers... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1858 - 448 pages
...intended to keep them dry. For this purpose, M. Triger employed large sheetiron cylinders, about 3'39 feet in interior diameter, securely closed at the...substituting flax for cotton threads in the wicks. On the contrary, the observations of Mr. J. Mitchell, quartermaster of artillery of the English army,... | |
 | 1858 - 482 pages
...engineer ; but the workmen were thus compelled to labor in air condensed under a pressure of about tltree atmospheres. Among other curious results of this state...river, in South Carolina. So far as I have been able to ascertain, the results manifested in this case were identical with those recorded by M. Triger,... | |
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... incessantly worked by a steam-engine — air was condensed to an amount sufficient to counteract the external hydrostatic pressure. The ingenious contrivance fully justified the expectations of the engineer ;' but the workmen were thus compelled to... 
