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Updated: September 18, 2025
We were rather short of crockery, but small pieces of venesta-wood served admirably as plates for seal steaks; stews and liquids of all sorts were served in the aluminium sledging-mugs, of which each man had one. Later on, jelly-tins and biscuit-tin lids were pressed into service.
JARS. Earthenware jars for stewing. JUGS. Wide-mouthed jugs are easiest to clean. LEMON SQUEEZER. The glass squeezer is the best. PALETTE KNIFE. For beating white of egg, scraping basins, etc. PASTE BOARD and ROLLING PIN. PESTLE and MORTAR. PRESERVING PAN. Copper or enamelled. SAUCEPANS. Cast aluminium are the best. SIEVES. Hair and wire. STILL. For distilling water.
"I do, indeed; and you now see the reason for the aluminium hilt to diminish the weight of the already heavy projectile and also for this hexagonal boss on the end?" "No, I do not," said the inspector; "but I say that you are suggesting an impossibility." "Then," replied Thorndyke, "I must explain and demonstrate.
A variety of metal threads are manufactured for embroidery purposes, and they are all obtainable in gold, silver, or imitations of these; aluminium thread has been made lately, and has the advantage of being untarnishable, but its colour and quality do not seem quite satisfactory, and it is not popular.
These sledges were far superior to any drawn by dogs or reindeer; each one of them, mounted on broad runners of aluminium, was provided with a small engine, charged at the vessel with electricity enough to last a week, and was propelled by means of a light metal wheel with sharp points upon its outer rim.
It is not surprising that the establishment of the electric equilibrium by contact with the trees, which produced such a spark should fire the hydrogen inflation charge. In fact the heat generated was so intense that the aluminium metallic framework was fused. The measurements which were made proved that the gas was consumed within 15 seconds and the envelope destroyed within 20 seconds.
Her hull was of white polished metal, probably aluminium, and shone like silver in the sunlight. "The wildest rumours are current as to the object of her visit, but of course no credence can be attached to any of them. The vessel is plainly of the same type as that which destroyed Kronstadt two months ago, but larger and more powerful.
"Four halfpenny stamps, and half a frank on my watch-chain," was the reply. "But I don't think these railway Johnnies 'ud take either of those." On examination, the only articles of value Mugford's pockets were found to contain were an aluminium pencil-case which wouldn't work, and a dirty scrap of indiarubber. "Look here," cried Carton, "I'll give you two shillings.
They were practically flat-bottomed, to ensure light draught, and were built in sections, to provide the maximum of portability, which quality was further ensured by the fact that the material of which they were constructed was an amalgam largely composed of aluminium.
When undertaking cross-country flights over strange land an airman finds his way by a specially-prepared map which is spread out before him in an aluminium map case. From the illustration here given of an aviator's map, you will see that it differs in many respects from the ordinary map. Most British aviation maps are made and supplied by Mr Alexander Gross, of the firm of "Geographia", London.
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