And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.
It was the same slow, heavy laugh, that had almost appalled the lime-burner when it heralded the wayfarer's approach.
When the child was out of sight, and his swift and light footsteps ceased to be heard treading first on the fallen leaves and then on the rocky mountain-path, the lime-burner began to regret his departure.
The man's head is turned," muttered the lime-burner to himself.
While the lime-burner was struggling with the horror of these thoughts, Ethan Brand rose from the log, and flung open the door of the kiln.
So saying, the rude lime-burner lifted his pole, and, letting it fall upon the skeleton, the relics of Ethan Brand were crumbled into fragments.
The lime-burner sat watching him, and half suspected this strange guest of a purpose, if not to evoke a fiend, at least to plunge into the flames, and thus vanish from the sight of man.
The cock remains open, the spiral recedes from the burner, the circuit opens anew, and the burner remains lighted until the gas is turned off.
The apparatus has the form of a rod of a length that may be varied at will, according to the height of the burner to be lighted, and which terminates at its lower part in an ebonite handle about 4 centimeters in width by 20 in length (Fig.
But there she saw only Coaly Mathew himself, who was sitting by the kiln in front of his log cabin, and holding his wooden pipe with both hands as he smoked it; for a charcoal-burner is like a charcoal kiln, in that he is always smoking.
The charcoal-burner pointed with his right thumb toward the side where a foot-path wound around the mountain.
He, heir to one of the greatest coronets in the world, must see his friend branded as a common felon, and could do no more to aid or to avenge him than if he were a charcoal-burner toiling yonder in the pine woods!
After it grew dark, Ulrich was to come to the charcoal-burner again.
The charcoal-burner had never lighted such bright fires, never tasted such delicious meat and spicy wine, as during that period of his life, while vengeance had a still sweeter savor than all the rest.
Bos'n had hung up her stocking by the base-burner stove, and found it warty and dropsical the next morning, with a generous overflow of gifts piled on the floor beneath it.
He boarded up the fireplace in the sitting room and installed a base-burner stove, resurrected from the tinsmith's barn.
Parallel wick-lamps should be avoided on account of the unequal illumination they produce, and if oil must be used a good circular wick burner will be found more suitable.
The burner should be within easy reach of the worktable and should be fitted with a byepass to obviate the necessity of continually striking matches.
The roaster is generally operated with coal fuel, but can be used with gas by installing a suitable burner under the cylinder.
Tubermann's Son in 1877, for "a coffee burner with vertically adjusted stirring works.
Morewood, of Brentford, England, was granted an English patent on a gas roaster fitted with a sliding burner and a removable sampling tube.
A special gas burner (made the basis of application for patent) is first attached to a regular Burns roaster.
If the burner is not hot enough to do this, the gasoline flowing from the pipe will flow down into the cup and the stove will burn with a smoky flame which becomes higher and higher and looks very alarming.
What has happened when the gas in a burner "burns back"?
After a large kettle full of food has been heated to boiling, this burner may keep it simmering for hours, using very little gas.
Put enough fuel, such as alcohol, into a burner to heat it hot enough to change the oil to be used to gas and ignite it.
If it appears elsewhere, the burner is not working properly.
It is more economical to use cold-process gasoline gas with a mantle lamp than an open-flame burner for lighting.
The burner consists of a chimney, a wick or ring of asbestos, a valve or a lever, and a ring-like cup at the base of the burner.
The small holes in the chimney of the burner and at the base of the burner are to admit air.
One manufacturer states that the gas stoves made by his firm consume per top burner per hour fourteen to eighteen feet of gas, and the oven burners consume eighteen to twenty feet when the gas is turned on full.
Shield walls and other objects so that the burner may blaze high without doing damage.
The gasoline stoves consist of a burnerand an oil tank connected by a pipe (Fig.
Be careful to see that every part of the oven burnerbecomes lighted.
The burner is a long pipe punctured with holes extending across the stove.
If this precaution is not taken, most stoves leak oil when not in use, because the wick or rings carry oil to the upper part of the burner where it spreads over the stove.
When the burner is lighted, the oil passes down this pipe into the ring, where it becomes heated and is vaporized.
After being heated sufficiently, the valve leading to the burner is opened and the burner lighted with a match or torch.
At the base of the lamp-post a small hermetically-closed can containing petroleum ether is placed, and connected by very fine copper-tubing with a burner under the vaporising tube.
The means of igniting the gas in the cylinders may be either a Bunsen burner or an electric spark.
The burner rapidly heats the vaporising tube, and in a few moments oil-gas is passing into the mantles, where it is ignited by the burner.
With the same gas consumption a Welsbach burner yields seven or more times the light of an ordinary batswing burner.
The feed-supply to the burner is governed by a spring valve, which cuts off the petrol automatically as soon as the steam in the boiler reaches a certain pressure.
Thus, the kettle and burner on their own individual table or stand were placed within easy reach of the tea table.
In most instances it was the hot water kettle that sat upon a spirit lamp or burner rather than a teapot.
On occasion the teapot was placed on a spirit lamp or burner to keep the beverage warm.
To avoid this, burners have been constructed so that the gas is mixed with the proper proportion of air at the burner tip, to insure perfect combustion.
The burner is of the double tip form, consuming three-quarters of a cubic foot per hour.
When the gas is generated it passes through the filter D on its way to the burner through R.
The key is so arranged that when not depressed but little gas is admitted through the by-pass to the burner and the flame is low.
Connect the rubber tube to the burner before opening the stopcock on the generator.
These form a tarry substance which is apt to condense at the burner tip and clog the openings.
For this purpose, the burner could be placed in a thick glass globe hermetically closed; in fact the globe might even be exhausted of air, for experiments prove that the light is in several respects improved when burnt in a vacuum!
The inventors claim that their method of illumination is, for the amount of light obtained, far cheaper than any other known, pleading that one burner is equal to one hundred gas-lights.
I liked this place, because there was a little gas-burner there, and I could work whilst waiting for my turn to go on the stage.
The armature now cools, and the attraction of the magnet N overcomes the spring W and draws the armature A back again above the burner H, so that the same is again heated and the operations are repeated.
While in the charcoal fire, or when held in a burnerto get a better idea of the degree of heat, the button glowed with great brilliancy.
T is not made use of and the armature itself swings into and out of the range of the intense action of the heat from the burner H.
The wire was next placed between two pieces of charcoal, and a burner applied, so as to produce an intense heat, sufficient to melt down the pumice stone into a small glass-like button.
If oil in the tank is too cold to flow into the burner readily, it must be heated.
Loose brick perhaps fallen in front of burner and obstructed the flow of oil.
The oil will drop from the mouth of the burner into the draft pan to the ground where it is very liable to start a fire under the engine.
That which will provide for the delivery of the oil from burner to flash wall without striking arch, side walls, or floor brick while doing so.
Be sure that no oil is wasting below the burner or an explosion may result that will prove disastrous.
What position should burner be with reference to level and in line with center of fire-box?
Many of the good qualities of the oil may be lost by keeping it too warm, and the burner is more difficult to operate and does not work as well when the oil is kept at too high a temperature.
Will a corroded burner mouth prevent the proper delivery of fuel to fire?
In this manner the oil before reaching the burner is heated much higher than the temperature of that contained in tank.
Illustration: Boivin burnerfor alcohol, attachable to any lamp.
A lamp with a Boivin burner and a Welsbach mantle has given a light of 30.
In what are termed fountain reading, or study lamps, the principal reservoir is above the burner level, and various means are adopted for maintaining a supply from them at the level of the burner.
The burner was an Argand of the type then in use, consisting of a metal ring pierced with holes so as to give a circle of small jets, the ring of flame being surrounded by a chimney.
This is seen by holding in the flame of an atmospheric burner a coil of thick platinum wire, the result being that the wire is heated to a dull red only.
Down the centre of the upper tube passes a wire, "the moderator," G, and it is by this wire that the supply of oil to the burner is regulated.
The lamps used for supplying oil to the burner are of two general types, viz.
In the case of the occulting types a revolving screen is placed around the burner and carried upon a miniature mercury float.
Many lights are provided with occulting apparatus actuated by the gas passing from the reservoir to the burner automatically cutting off and turning on the supply.
The means by which a uniformly regulated supply of oil is brought to the burner varies with the position of the oil reservoir.
In the ordinary type of gas buoy lantern the burner employed is of the multiple-jet, Argand ring, or incandescent type.
It is equipped with the same kind of a burner or element with a reflector underneath, and can be used very efficiently with ordinary cooking utensils and is also very serviceable as a toaster.
The first marked accomplishment in operative detail was a lamp with a platinum wire burner of high resistance, protected by a high vacuum in an all-glass globe, and with the leading-in wires sealed into the glass by fusion.
Each burner is operated by an indicating snap switch which has three separate heats, full, medium and low; medium being one-half of full and low one-half of medium.
The easy snap of the controlling switch on the electric burner gives a certain intensity of heat which remains at that temperature so long as the switch remains in that position.
In the feeble light of the gas burner Tommy blinked at her.
Suddenly Elvin's weary mind began to piece together a vague kind of understanding, when he remembered the transformation of the Bunsen burner to gold.
Charcoal may be used in this form of oven as with the temporary arrangement, or the heat may be secured from any form of burner or torch giving a large volume of flame.
The air line is often dispensed with, allowing the gas to draw air into the burner on the injector principle, much the same as with illuminating gas burners for use with incandescent mantles.
This retort is carried above a burner using fuel gas or other means of generating heat and this burner is lighted after the chemical charge is mixed and compressed in the tube.
He was the only person in the place tall enough to have smashed the gas globe and incandescent burner in Mr. Glenthorpe's room by striking his head against it.
When I struck a match I found that I couldn't light the gas because the incandescentburner had been broken by the blow, so I lit the candle.
The glass is broken and the incandescent burner smashed.
He bent down to examine the white fragments of the burner which were scattered about the carpet, and as he did so he noticed another broken wooden match, and two more splashes of candle-grease directly beneath the gas-jet.
Yet that gas tap was turned on slightly when we examined the room, and the globe and the incandescent burner smashed.
That was a point he had marked previously when Superintendent Galloway had suggested that the incandescent burner was broken by the murderer striking it with the corpse he was carrying.
The globe was cracked, and the incandescent burner was broken.
Mr. Maxim made one of six thousand burner capacity for the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga Springs, it being the largest gas machine ever built.
It is 36 inches in diameter for a thousandburner machine.
The burner used with this machine is made to produce the very best results attainable, and then the gas is regulated to a density and pressure to suit the burner.
The nuisance of an adjustable burner is thus obviated.
Now, gentlemen, if you have thrown prejudice to the winds, perhaps you can recognize in this ideal burner the incandescent electric light for domestic use.
The blowpipe has now been put on, and the intense heat of the Bunsen burner raises the glass to incandescence, to a soft, plastic condition, so plastic that the manipulator can do with it just whatever he likes.
Now, what comprises an ideal burnerfor domestic use?
Please lay aside all prejudice, and I will show you an ideal domestic burner for illumination purposes.
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