Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 23, 2025
When I am hungry I promenade myself to the butcher's and bring home a pound or so of steak, which I cook very nicely in three seconds by this oxy-hydrogen flame. Thirsty, perhaps, I send for a carboy of Aqua fortis. But I have it charged, all charged. My spirit is above any small pecuniary transaction. I loathe your dirty greenbacks, and never handle what they call scrip."
Forthwith they compelled most of them to strip off all their clothes, and robbed them of everything of value they possessed. These thieves are practical too. At Dinant, safes were opened with oxy-hydrogen blow-pipes, brought expressly for that purpose. They have a partiality for safes, and in this connection the story of Luneville deserves recording.
'I suppose you couldn't burn the door of the vault with oxy-hydrogen? Simon suggested. 'Yes, I could, said Mr. Galpin; 'and with the brand of steel used here I should get through about this time to-morrow. I could blow the bally vault up with gun-cotton in something under two seconds, but no doubt your Mr. Hugo would go up with it, and then the Yard would be angry. No!
The temperature, for instance, of the oxy-hydrogen flame was fixed by Bunsen at 2,800° C. an estimate certainly not very far from the truth.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking