Results calculated from observations of the temperature in the shade, and of the wet and dry bulbthermometers taken at Ugi at 9 a.
The boys of Treasury sometimes amuse themselves with a game of the same character, when they use as their weapons the stalk and bulb of the large taro.
If the stem emerges into space either hotter or colder than that in which the bulbis placed, a "stem correction" must be applied to the observed temperature in addition to any correction that may be found in the comparison with the standard.
For rapid work a rubber bulb aspirator connected to the air outlet of the cock G will enable a new supply of gas to be drawn into the pipe, the apparatus then being filled as already described.
The mean temperature of the emergent column may be found by tying another thermometer on the stem with the bulb at the middle of the emergent mercury column as in Fig.
Care must be taken that the bulb of the instrument projects into the path of the moving gases in order that the temperature may truly represent the flue gas temperature.
It is then suspended in the shade with the bulb end a little lower than the other.
The bulb of one of the thermometers has some thin muslin tied over it, and is kept moist by the capillary action of a thread dipping into a cistern of water placed underneath.
Dry bulb must never receive moisture from any source.
The Thermometer is “set” for observation by slightly raising the bulb end until the index slides to the extreme end of the column of spirit.
A scale, having its zero in the middle, is attached to the tube, and the bulb A is enclosed in a highly polished sphere of brass.
Then it came to a stop, against an outcrop of coral, with a force that put its sensitive bulb permanently out of business.
I have fitted the shutter with a specially long pneumatic tube, and the bulb will do its double work as usual when my fingers relax.
I had lost very few seconds between pulling the revolver trigger and pressing the bulb of my pneumatic shutter; but one had to get back into position for this, and the fact remains that I was too late.
I don’t quite see how the one bulb works everything, but these springs and things are a bit confusing.
The tapering end of the bulb projects through the back of the mirror into an ear tube.
The wire was enclosed in a glass bulb almost entirely exhausted of air by a mercury-pump before being sealed.
Two sets of the apparatus above described are necessary for a conversation, the functions of the searchlight and the bulb not being reversible.
A large vacuum bulb filled and exposed to the atmosphere had some of the liquid still unevaporated at the end of twenty-two days.
Every azalea was imported from Belgium; every lily-bulb from Japan.
Mr Mackay, in his "Memoirs of Popular Delusions," tells a funny story of an English botanist who happened to see a tulip bulblying in the conservatory of a wealthy Dutchman.
Ignorant if its value, he took out his penknife and, cutting the bulb in two, became very much interested in his investigations.
Screening his eyes with his fingers, the salesman scanned the walls and ceiling for the vizer lens, found it beside the five-hundred watt bulb pouring blindingly down on him, on the other side of a speaker grille.
When he finally reached the floor, he placed the bulb on it beside the sample case.
The latch on the front door snapped to and instantly the hall was flooded with light from a tremendous bulb in the ceiling, which, surprisingly, was twenty feet above him.
Next place the thermometer in the patient's mouth, with its bulb under his tongue; he must then keep his lips closed until it is removed.
To give an enema to a baby one may use a small syringe having a soft rubber bulb with a nozzle directly attached, or the ordinary fountain syringe with the small, hard rubber tip designed for infants.
In taking the temperature of a baby place him on his back, hold him firmly with his legs elevated, and carefully insert the bulb of the thermometer, well oiled, for about one inch.
The pipe or whistle is held with the bulb in the centre of the palm, the hole being towards the wrist.
There are four of each placed in a line one above the other, in groups of two--- a red and white bulb together.
In this box the bulbof a thermometer being placed, the temperature of the inner chamber can be registered.
Having placed the drop of fat upon the mercury, the bulb of a thermometer, with sufficiently minute graduations, is introduced into the mercury and hot water poured into the basin.
The wet bulb hygrometer consists of two small thermometers placed side by side, the bulb of them being surrounded by cotton films kept constantly damp by a simple contrivance.
When the mercury begins to rise out of the bulb of the thermometer, the 'damper-plate' is pushed in a little way, to moderate the heat.
From gut-skin moistened and stretched over an oiled bulb of glass or metal, and filled in the common way.
If, after suction, the liquid remains at a higher level in the furthest bulb (b), it is a sign that the connection is sound.
A spirit thermometer, having its bulb covered with cotton, if dipped into this fluid and suspended in the air, rapidly sinks from 60 deg.
Amongst the various contrivances for accomplishing this end are Daniel's dew-point hygrometer; and the wetbulb hygrometer.
The modern thermometer consists of a glass tube at the lower end of which is a bulb filled with mercury or colored alcohol (Fig.
After the bulb has been filled with the mercury, it is placed in a beaker of water and the water is heated by a Bunsen burner.
If, however, the bulb must be moved nearer to the rod in order that the two shadows may be similar then the light given by the bulb is less than sixteen candle power, and less than that due the consumer.
A fine, hairlike filament within a glass bulb is raised to incandescence by the heat of an electric current.
A scratch is made on the tube to indicate the point to which the mercury rises when the bulb is placed in boiling water, and this point is marked 212°.
The incandescent bulbs which illuminate our buildings consist of a fine, hairlike thread inclosed in a glass bulb from which the air has been removed.
Every time we squeeze the bulb of an atomizer, we force compressed or condensed air through the atomizer, and the condensed air pushes the liquid out of the nozzle (Fig.
The dome is the terminal of the spire or the bulb of the cupola.
Indeed, that form of bulb or cupola which we see upon the churches is peculiarly characteristic.
All oil is good to preserve the bulb from receiving injury to the substances working within it, or, as we should say in chemistry, in liquefaction.
To prevent Baldness and Dandruff, it is necessary to protect the bulb from which the hair issues from all deteriorating atmospheric influences, and to maintain the temperature of the head at its right medium.
There may be no bulbin the left-hand socket," I suggested.
If you use the thumb and finger you squeeze the tiny bulb at the outer end of the sting, and inject the poison into your blood.
Your dog may be worth ten dollars; he may do ten dollars' worth of damage in ten different bulb beds in ten days.
This order was filled and it was the beginning of mybulb business.
So instead of just digging out a dandelion or a thistle and leaving a bare hole, I recommend that you poke in a crocus bulb next fall.
One fall we tried the experiment of poking a crocus bulb down in the hole where we took out a dandelion and the result was charming.
The three worlds are as the fatty bulb of that pithy intelligence; for know thou righteous soul!
The bulb was pronounced at the Royal Society to be only muscle, but it is curious that muscle should be furnished where none is needed, and withheld in the movable parts of the shield where it is decidedly needed.
Before blackening the fire with a stoking of coal he pulled up a wooden Bushmills box, turned off the electric bulb overhead, and sat there for a final pipe, watching the rosy shine of the grate.
The little bookseller's bald pate shone in the light of the bulb hanging over the wrapping table.
For instance, bulbs of Lilium Davuricum can be purchased at an auction for half-a-crown a dozen, whereas you will have to pay about a sovereign for a moderately good bulb of Lilium Dalhansoni.
Lily bulbs vary a good deal in appearance and size, but there are certain qualities by which the value of any bulb can be more or less accurately determined.
We would rather have a small, compact, but heavy bulbthan a light bulb with wide open scales, even though it be twice the size of the smaller bulb.
Take thebulb and dust it over with powdered charcoal, which prevents the development of mildew.
Take thebulb you are going to plant, examine it carefully and pull off any diseased or mildewy scale.
If the buds of a lily be cut off, the bulb increases enormously in size, and next year sends up a very superior shoot bearing many fine blossoms.
If you plant a bulb which has already thrown up an inch or two of flower-spike, the chances are that it will form no root, and that the stem will wither ere the flowering period arrives.
While the bulb is drying dig a hole, which must vary in size according to the size of the bulb, in which to plant your bulb.
Near by is the Whatcom County Government Farm, the only one in the northwest; where bulb growing rivals the same industry in Holland.
Experiment Farm, via Pacific Highway; Government bulb farm, in full bloom during April and May; Country Club.
