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  1.  Wonderful Balloon Ascents / Marion, F. (Fulgence)
    achievement, whilst it was our own Cavendish who discovered that hydrogen gas was lighter than air; and Dr ... -machine shown on the next page. The specific lightness of heated air and of hydrogen gas not having yet  details...
  2.  The Mastery of the Air / Claxton, William J.
    leave the experiments of the Montgolfiers for a moment, and turn to the discovery of hydrogen gas by Henry Cavendish, a well-known London chemist. In 1766 Cavendish proved conclusively that hydrogen gas ...  details...
  3.  Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers / Doubleday, Russell, 1872-1949
    new. Imagine a great bag of yellow oiled silk, cigar-shaped, fully inflated with hydrogen gas ... -spitting motor been hung under a great reservoir of highly inflammable hydrogen gas, and most of the group  details...
  4.  Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 / Various
    , pure sulphureted hydrogen gas is given off, which is conducted to a gas holder and stored ... in the process, as in order that the sulphureted hydrogen gas obtained shall be concentrated and pure, only pure  details...
  5.  A Project for Flying In Earnest at Last! / Hardley, Robert
    of gas equal to about 320 cubic feet, which, in pure hydrogen, would enable it to support a weight ... , by which the purity of the hydrogen gas is contaminated, and its buoyant power ultimately exhausted  details...
  6.  A Voyage in a Balloon (1852) / Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
    why Hetzel removed the description of the inflation of the balloon with hydrogen gas. In fact hydrogen ... hydrogen? In fact in the Hetzel version the lifting gas hydrogen is replaced with "illuminating gas  details...
  7.  The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association / Smith, Watson
    , that ill-smelling gas, sulphuretted hydrogen, which occurs in rotten eggs, in organic effluvia ... the hydrogen as gas, which you could collect and ignite with a match, when you would find it would burn  details...
  8.  Lives of philosophers of the time of George III. By Henry, Lord Brougham ... / Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
    - ture of hydrogen gas was perfectly known to him, and both its qualities of being inflammable ... on hydrogen gas, and which has changed the whole aspect of chemical science, was founded mainly upon  details...
  9.  Five Weeks in a Balloon / Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
    too ponderous dimensions, he had decided to fill it with hydrogen gas, which is fourteen and a half times ... pounds. By giving the balloon these cubic dimensions, and filling it with hydrogen gas, instead  details...
  10.  Substance and show : and other lectures / by Thomas Starr King ; edited, with an introduction, by Edwin P. Whipple. / King, Thomas Starr, 1824-1864
    -looking hydrogen gas will chew up a piece of bar-iron as though it were some favorite Cav- endish ; and Mr ... is reducible to oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, and ni- trogen. How does it happen that this common stock is worked  details...

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