Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814, American Academy of Arts and Sciences · Boston · leaf 239
es, being filled, werelaid upon a small piece of deal board, with their necksinclined at an angle of about 20° above the plane of thehorizon, and supported in this position by a perpendicu-lar fork of wood fixed to the end of the board, as rep-resented by the following figure. The part of the… … or hoop of soft wood was nailed down upon the boardin that part. By this arrangement the jars were spared, and the endof the neck of the globe being easy to be come at, byintroducing a wire, or, what I commonly made use of ^in preference, a small glass tube, into the globe, the airhanging attached…
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