ith an unfortunate accident inthe year 1815, from the effects of which he never en-tirely recovered. While fitting up an apparatus of hisown invention for heating the water of the baths atLeamington, a heavy plate of cast iron fell upon his legabove the ankle, nearly severing it in two. He… … PRINCE ALBERT AND THE INVENTOR OF GUN COTTON. INVENTION AND DISCOVERT. 257 PRINCE ALBERT AND THE INVENTOR OF GUN-COTTON. Professor Scnoxr.Eix, of Basle, discovered that bycombining cotton with nitric acid, an explosive com-yiouud -was formed capable of being substituted forgunpowder. Gun-cotton is…
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