Project Gutenberg 2017-09-25 Public domain in the USA. 111 Williams, W. Mattieu (William Mattieu) 1820 1892 Williams, William Mattieu Science in Short Chapters The fuel of the sun -- Dr. Siemens' theory of the sun -- Another world down here -- The origin of lunar volcanoes -- Note on the direct effect of sun-spots on terrestrial climates -- The philosophy of the radiometer and its cosmical revelations -- On the social benefits of paraffin -- The solidity of the earth -- A contribution to the history of electric lighting -- The formation of coal -- The solar eclipse of 1871 -- Meteoric astronomy -- The "great ice age" and the origin of the "till" -- The barometer and the weather -- The chemistry of bog reclamation -- Aerial exploration of the arctic regions -- The limits of our coal supply -- "The Englishman's fireside" -- "Baily's beads" -- The coloring of green tea -- "Iron filings" in tea -- Concert-room acoustics -- Science and spiritualism -- Mathematical fictions -- World-smashing -- The dying trees in Kensington Gardens -- The oleaginous products of Thames mud: where they come from and where they go -- Luminous paint -- The origin and probable duration of petroleum -- The origin of soap -- Oiling the waves -- On the so-called "crater necks" and "volcanic bombs" of Ireland -- Travertine -- The action of frost in water-pipes and on building materials -- The corrosion of building stones -- Fire-clay and anthracite -- Count Rumford's cooking-stoves -- The "consumption of smoke" -- The air of stove-heated rooms -- Ventilation by open fireplaces -- Domestic ventilation -- Home gardens for smoky towns -- Solids, liquids, and gases -- Murchison and Babbage -- Atmosphere versus ether -- A neglected disinfectant -- Another disinfectant -- Ensilage -- The fracture of comets -- The origin of comets. Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) en Science Q Text Browsing: Science - General 949281 949290 2024-07-23T06:44:32.945641 2023-09-24T05:32:29.555026 text/html text/html 949296 2017-09-25T13:44:40 text/html; charset=utf-8 772590 2017-09-25T13:44:42 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 917772 2024-07-23T06:44:45.174585 application/epub+zip 915180 2024-07-23T06:44:34.841613 application/epub+zip 483467 2024-07-23T06:44:33.846620 application/epub+zip 1118926 2024-07-23T06:44:53.192502 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1044106 2024-07-23T06:44:44.172551 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 616617 2022-08-25T06:24:09.457290 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 890790 890584 2024-07-23T06:44:31.637642 2023-09-24T05:32:28.303016 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 890958 2017-09-25T13:44:36 text/plain; charset=utf-8 328158 2017-09-25T13:44:42 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 19061 2024-07-23T06:44:53.341495 application/rdf+xml 15649 2024-07-23T06:44:33.987608 image/jpeg 2079 2024-07-23T06:44:33.917610 image/jpeg 773814 2024-07-23T06:44:33.033616 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog