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I'm afraid the fuses won't stand it, but here goes for a try, anyhow." He threw over a switch, changed a lever and then, having pushed into place the last gear, he grasped the steering wheel more firmly. There was need of it, for, in an instant, the electric runabout, with the motors fairly roaring, swept up the road, after the gasolene car that was almost hidden from sight in a cloud of dust.
When I told of Lute's forgetfulness in the matter of gasolene the lightkeeper thumped the table. "There, by godfreys!" he exclaimed. "I could see it comin'! That feller's for all the world like a cook I had once aboard the Ezry H. Jones. That cook was the biggest numskull that ever drawed the breath of life. Always forgettin' somethin', he was, and always at the most inconvenient time.
You bought a ticket and a gasolene launch took you up the lake. Then the men wore smart flannels and the girls new summer clothes. In the evenings one sang and played a banjo, another a mandolin." Thirlwell laughed. "You don't like music?" "I love it; but not ragtime and modern coon songs in the bush.
If worst comes to worst, and we can't navigate as an aeroplane any more, we can even drift along as a dirigible. But while we have the gasolene we might as well make speed and be an aeroplane." The others agreed with him, and so it was arranged.
"But I cannot," gasped the Frenchman as the Gasowashine sets its wheels upon the incline. "Here! Somebody get in front of that thing!" commanded Macdougal. "Don't let it go up. Knock it over!" "If you knock that over!" stormed Hawkins, springing to the side of his contrivance and feeling excitedly for the valve which should shut off the supply of gasolene.
Or Edison with his phonograph or his incandescent light? Or the Wright brothers with their flying-machine? Or Henry Ford with his motor-car? Before gasolene was discovered they would have been too early, but then their inventions would not have materialized. The world moves, and great men are the springs of progress. But no man is born too soon or too late. A fadeless flower is no flower at all.
Some natural gas companies have bought up the culm banks and heaps of refuse coal, so that if the natural gas becomes exhausted they can manufacture cheap gas at the mines and pipe it to the cities they now serve. Petroleum, or rock oil, is a dark greenish brown liquid which when refined yields gasolene, naphtha, benzine, kerosene, lubricating oils, and paraffin.
Similarly the oil, water, and gasolene of the engine were kept working by special methods. The armistice threw the different nations into a dilemma as to their aviation plans. Obviously the huge war planes which were still in the building in all the belligerent countries were no longer necessary.
But the indefatigable Ben would not let them loaf, even then. "I want her to set more by the stern," he said, "shift those gasolene cans aft here, and we will trim her down in good shape."
Cases of poisoning by petroleum and paraffin are common, and occur chiefly in children. =Petroleum= is a natural product, and is a mixture of the higher saturated hydrocarbons. The crude petroleum is purified by distillation, and is then free from colour, but retains its peculiar penetrating odour. Different varieties are sold under the names of cymogene, gasolene, naphtha, petrol, and benzoline.
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