 | Science - 1815 - 1036 pages
...beyond what appeared required and sufficient. Mention has been made above of small plates of clay. They are formed by extending a white refractory clay by...paper, like gold between skins. The clay and paper, and then cut together with scissars into pieces about 4-10ths of an inch long, and 2^-lOths of an inch... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1823 - 482 pages
...has been said beyond what appeared required, and sufficient. ON THE PREPARATION OF SMALL PLATES OF CLAY. by blows with the hammer, between the fold of...long, and two and a half tenths of an inch wide; and then hardened in the fire, in a tobacco-pipe. They are very useful additions to the blow-pipe apparatus.... | |
 | Agriculture - 1823 - 504 pages
...sufficient. _ . •• ,|.' if..' .-. ' . Mention has been made above of small plates of clay. They are formed by extending a white refractory clay by...paper, like gold between skins. The clay and paper, and then cut together with scissars into pieces about 4-10ths of an inch long, and 2-^-1 Oths of an... | |
 | Natural history - 1824 - 540 pages
...consumed by nearly interminable failures." Mr. Smithson's processes are three. 1st. Small plates of clay "are formed by extending a white refractory clay, by blows with the hammer, between the folds of a piece of paper, like gold between skins. The clay and paper are then cut together with scissors,"... | |
 | Natural history - 1824 - 508 pages
...consumed by nearly interminable failures." Mr. Smithson's processes are three. 1st. Small plates of clay "are formed by extending a white refractory clay, by blows with the hammer, between the folds of a piece of paper, like gold between skins. The clay and paper are then cut together with scissors,"... | |
 | William Jones Rhees - Charities - 1880 - 290 pages
...beyond what appeared required and sufficient. Mention has been made above of small plates of clay. They are formed by extending a white refractory clay by...then cut together with scissars into pieces about 4-lOths of an inch long, and 2J-10ths of an inch wide, and hardened in the fire in a tobacco-pipe.... | |
 | William Jones Rhees - Biography & Autobiography - 1880 - 282 pages
...beyond what appeared required and sufficient. Mention has been made above of small plates of clay. They are formed by extending a white refractory clay by...then cut together with scissars into pieces about 4-lOths of an inch long, and 2J-10ths of an inch wide, and hardened in the fire in a tobacco-pipe.... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - Chemistry - 1881 - 834 pages
...beyond what appeared required and sufficient. Mention has been made above of small plates of clay. They are formed by extending a white refractory clay by...then cut together with scissars into pieces about 4-lOths of an inch long, and 2J-10t.hs of an inch wide, and hardened in the fire in a tobacco-pipe.... | |
 | 1881 - 856 pages
...beyond what appeared required and sufficient. Mention has been made above of small plates of clay. They are formed by extending a white refractory clay by...then cut together with scissars into pieces about 4-10ths of an inch long, and 2£-10ths of an inch wide, and hardened in the fire in a tobacco-pipe.... | |
 | David M. Knight - Atoms - 1998 - 692 pages
...237. Mr. Smithson* used small plates of clay as supports for substances before the blow-pipe. They are formed by extending a white refractory clay by...in the fire in a tobacco pipe. When cut into small and very acute triangles, they form a substitute for Saussure's sappare. The method of attaching the... | |
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Mention has been made above of small plates of clay. They are formed by extending a white refractory clay by blows with the hammer, between the fold of a piece of paper, like gold between skins. The clay and paper, are then cut together with scissars... 