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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...- creator(s) - Marion, F. (Fulgence)
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- subject(s) - balloon; ascent; gas; hydrogen gas; height; ascent; balloon; hydrogen gas; gas; height;
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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...- creator(s) - Claxton, William J.
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- subject(s) - aeroplane; balloon; aviation; pilot; engine; craft; machine; motor; flight; air; british; santos dumont; wright biplane; wright biplane; santos dumont; craft; balloon; engine; motor; aviation; pilot; british; machine; aeroplane; flight; air;
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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...- creator(s) - Doubleday, Russell, 1872-1949
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- subject(s) - dumont; marconi; santos; motor; gasoline; balloon; steam; telephone; gasoline motor; gas; wireless telegraphy; steel; engine; boat; bridge; wireless telegraphy; steel; santos; balloon; telephone; steam; gasoline motor; engine; dumont; marconi; gas; gasoline; motor; boat; bridge;
- title - Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
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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...- creator(s) - Various
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- subject(s) - urine; acid; gas; ammonia; apparatus; solution; tube; sodium; temperature; arabian; caustic soda; diameter; soda; oil; cable; nitric acid; liquor; carbonic acid; sodium; apparatus; urine; temperature; caustic soda; cable; nitric acid; tube; ammonia; gas; arabian; acid; solution; liquor; diameter; soda; oil; carbonic acid;
- title - Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
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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...- creator(s) - Hardley, Robert
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- subject(s) - balloon; archimedean screw; screw; aerial; rate; motion; resistance; surface; machine; surface; aerial; rate; balloon; archimedean screw; motion; screw; machine; resistance;
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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...- creator(s) - Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
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- subject(s) - balloon; metres; gas; car; voyage; ascended; ascend; balloon; metres; ascended; gas; ascend; voyage; car;
- title - A Voyage in a Balloon (1852)
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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...- creator(s) - Smith, Watson
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- subject(s) - acid; wool; fibre; demy; solution; soda; fibres; hydrogen; sulphuric acid; hydrochloric acid; cotton; nitric acid; boric acid; abroad; lime; dyeing; caustic soda; dye; colour; price; fur; colours; carbonic acid; logwood black; silk; coal; textile fibres; hydrogen; demy; coal; boric acid; wool; silk; lime; fur; caustic soda; dye; nitric acid; hydrochloric acid; price; colour; abroad; textile fibres; acid; cotton; solution; colours; fibre; logwood black; soda; dyeing; sulphuric acid; carbonic acid; fibres;
- title - The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association
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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...- creator(s) - Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868
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- publisher - London, Glasgow, R. Griffin, 1855.
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- subject(s) - science great britain history; scientists; scientists, british; lavoisier; priestley; cavendish; watt; oxygen; adam smith; smith; watt; cavendish; science great britain history; scientists; lavoisier; adam smith; priestley; oxygen; smith; scientists, british;
- title - Lives of philosophers of the time of George III. By Henry, Lord Brougham ...
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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...- creator(s) - Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
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- subject(s) - kennedy; joe; balloon; ferguson; doctor; dick; victoria; lake tchad; car; lake; ascensional force; asked kennedy; balloon; ascensional force; lake; ferguson; joe; kennedy; lake tchad; asked kennedy; dick; victoria; car; doctor;
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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...- creator(s) - King, Thomas Starr, 1824-1864
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- publisher - Boston : Houghton, Osgood and company, 1879.
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- subject(s) - sermons, american; unitarianism sermons; unitarian churches sermons; socrates; webster; hildebrand; daniel webster; insight; sermons, american; daniel webster; unitarianism sermons; unitarian churches sermons; webster; insight; socrates; hildebrand;
- title - Substance and show : and other lectures / by Thomas Starr King ; edited, with an introduction, by Edwin P. Whipple.
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