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... choked cases , tying cases on wheels , & c . flax , or hemp . TO MAKE A ROMAN CANDLE STAR . At a Take the former , fig . 1 , which , as said before , is 1 inch long ; have a cylindrical piece of turned wood , box , beech , or ma- hogany ...
... choked cases , tying cases on wheels , & c . flax , or hemp . TO MAKE A ROMAN CANDLE STAR . At a Take the former , fig . 1 , which , as said before , is 1 inch long ; have a cylindrical piece of turned wood , box , beech , or ma- hogany ...
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... choke , makes a good stopper . Shot , shaken up in bottles , with water , soon cleans them . TO DAMP STARS . Stars containing nitrate of strontian must be damped , either with lac solution , or wax solution ; anything containing water ...
... choke , makes a good stopper . Shot , shaken up in bottles , with water , soon cleans them . TO DAMP STARS . Stars containing nitrate of strontian must be damped , either with lac solution , or wax solution ; anything containing water ...
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... choked cases , on a spindle , to leave a hollow up the middle , through which the fire may be communicated to nearly the whole of the composition at once : this causes the sudden generation of an enor- mous quantity of elastic vapour ...
... choked cases , on a spindle , to leave a hollow up the middle , through which the fire may be communicated to nearly the whole of the composition at once : this causes the sudden generation of an enor- mous quantity of elastic vapour ...
Page 35
... choked or strangled , about half a diameter from one end of the case , that end that lay nearest to the left hand in rolling , till they assume the shape of the neck of a vial . For this purpose have a cylindrical piece of deal , alder ...
... choked or strangled , about half a diameter from one end of the case , that end that lay nearest to the left hand in rolling , till they assume the shape of the neck of a vial . For this purpose have a cylindrical piece of deal , alder ...
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... choke ; pulling it tight ; looping it again , again passing it round the choke , and so on . The first loop is called a half hitch , and will not hold of itself ; the second loop com- pletes the hitch , and makes it hold : the re ...
... choke ; pulling it tight ; looping it again , again passing it round the choke , and so on . The first loop is called a half hitch , and will not hold of itself ; the second loop com- pletes the hitch , and makes it hold : the re ...
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