Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 252
mp, it isnot dangerous, but it can be fired even when wet. Itwill explode at a less temperature than gunpowder, and,moreover, yields, no smoke, nor does it foul a gun. Gun-cotton, when dissolved in ether, gives us collodion forphotographic purposes. In speaking farther of the compounds of nitrogen… … Cavendishs experiment. with heart disease should not use it without advice, how-ever. When inhaled into the lungs it makes the subjectvery hilarious, and the effect is rather nojsy, It is obtained
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