The Bottom of the SeaScribner, Armstrong, 1872 - 402 páginas |
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Página 405 - Montgolfier' s balloon, of Davy's safetylamp, of the methods of glass-blowing, and of numerous other facts in nature and processes in art dependent upon the influence of heat. Like the other volumes of the Library of Wonders, this is illustrated wherever the text gives an opportunity for explanation by this method. CRITICAL NOTICES. "From the first to the very last page the interest is all-absorbing.