Transactions Of The Gaelic Society Of Inverness Volume Ii 1872 1873

Author : Gaelic Society Of Inverness
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230154497
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness written by Gaelic Society Of Inverness and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... this rough way it is left to dry, and afterwards gathered in shapeless masses, and burnt without any further preparation. You will observe, that in this instance, the only improvement consists in the use of machinery. There is evidently no improvement in the finished article. In Bavaria, there are considerable manufactories of peat, simply cut and prepared as is done already in this country; and the chief use to which the article is applied is that of feeding railway engines. In the Netherlands, peat, of the ordinary description, is the staple fuel of the country; and during the season people flock in from Hanover, and from the adjacent parts of Germany to work in the mosses, the same as the Irish reapers used to migrate to the English and Scotch harvest, and as the hop-pickers flock to Kent and Farnham. But in the Netherlands the manufacture of peat has made some progress towards the production of a perfect article of fuel. So it has in Bavaria, in Prussia, in Bohemia, and in France. There have been two principles attempted to be carried out in this improved manufacture. The one is that of compressing the peat by machinery. This finished article I wish you to remember under the name of " compressed peat." The other principle is that of so preparing and placing the material, that it will become dense in obedience to the law by which the particles of matter are drawn. to each other. The finished article in this case is called "dense peat." Of the first of these, I shall only wait to say, that machinery is used to tear up the moss, and reduce it as quickly as possible to dust. This is then placed in a machine, and so driven together by force, that it comes out in solid cakes, ready for use. I have seen them, and in form...