 James river coal, submitted to an experiment of the same kind, burned out in four hours. "A fire was made with the Lehigh coal in a smith's forge, and two thick bars of iron were placed in it, and welded with great ease, by the proprietor of the furnace....  James Woodhouse: A Pioneer in Chemistry, 1770-1809 - Page 286by Edgar Fahs Smith - 1918 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Pennsylvania - 1836 - 440 pages
...engines; — in glass houses, and in common life, for washing, cook ing, &c. provided tkejlre planes are constructed in such a manner, as to keep up a strong draught of air. UNIVERSITY OP PENNSYLVANIA. (Continued from p:ige 213.) CHAPTER IX. Organization nf the University... | |
 | Edgar Fahs Smith - Chemists - 1918 - 326 pages
...square. Brass melts at twenty-one, copper at twentyseven, silver at twenty -eight, gold at thirty-two, and cast-iron at one hundred and thirty of this thermometer....Woodhouse related to the " raising of wheat flour and buck-wheat meal." One cannot but admire his zeal for the applied phases of chemistry. To him they represented... | |
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