Very few people have a correct idea of what dynamite is, of what it is made, and the uses to which it is put. To the French belongs the honour of its discovery and its first practical use. ...
Article : 462 wordsCoal-gas is produced by the simple distillation of dry coal. Anthracite coal is unsuitable for this purpose, and brown coal and lignite are unsatisfactory. The greatest yield of the best gas is ...
Article : 809 wordsMany persons feel that they can draw nearer to God in solitude than they can in society. It is bad to be always alone, but it is perhaps worse never to be alone. Those who wish to live simply in the ...
Article : 1,084 wordsIn Captain Anderson's recent book, "Among Typhoons and Pirate Craft," the author describes a stirring adventure—" One of the most heroic deeds on record," he calls it—of which he was a ...
Article : 517 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 2,312 wordsFrom the following record of events that have occurred on Friday, compiled by an American contemporary, it would appear that, at least, Brother Jonatha[?] has no reason to distrust the day which ...
Article : 259 wordsA Yankee and a Scotchman had been having a colloquy. The former had been telling the hardy son of the North some of his fishing adventures anecdotes, &c, which were of the usual American ...
Article : 209 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: