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Identifier: sciencerecordcom1874beac (find matches)
Title: The Science record; a compendium of scientific progress and discovery
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Beach, Alfred Ely, 1826-1896
Subjects: Technology Industrial arts
Publisher: New York, Munn
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ibes as a sharp, stingingblow upon the leg, and a hit on the right arm,which seemed to run along it and resemble a shockfrom a galvanic battery. A weeks suffering from aswollen hand was the only inconvenience occasioned bythe occurrence. The velocity of light is 192,000 miles per second, nearly.The velocity of frictional or static electricity over a copperwire is 288,000 miles per second. The velocity of soundin water is 4900 feet per second. ELECTRICITY, LIGHT, HEAT, SOUND. 247 POSTAL TELEGRAPH CARRIAGE.Our engraving shows one of the traveling telegraph-offices now in use in Great Britain for opening tempora-ry communications. The idea is to have a movableoffice, carrying its own cable, apparatus, and batteries,which can be transported from place to place, either byroad or rail, at the shortest notice, and which can betaken to the wires when the wires can not be taken to it.This, which is the only carriage of the kind in use forsimilar purposes, is constructed to carry one of each of
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POSTAL TELEGRAPH CARRIAGE. the different forms of instrument (six in all) in use in thepostal system, and can comfortably accommodate as manyas eight clerks in full work. It carries, also, nearly 150battery cells, and so skillfully is the accommodation de-signed that these are all stowed away out of sight in oddcorners, so that not a single atom of space is lost. Half amile of three wire iron-sheathed cable is stowed away assnugly as possible in the boot, and can be paid out anddrawn in with the greatest ease in the world. The tele-graph carnage has been used at agricultural shows andraces, and similar occurrences, which sometimes takeplace away from cities. \ 248 SCIENCE RECORD. NEW EXPERIMENTS ON COMBUSTION.By Karl Heuman.—By introducing a current of air oroxygen into the inner part of aflame and lighting it there,the author furnishes a neat and convincing proof of thepresence of unburnt gas in this part of the flame. Theapparatus employed consists of a cylinder 30cm. long and6 cm

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  • booksubject:Technology
  • booksubject:Industrial_arts
  • bookpublisher:New_York__Munn
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