... interior by firing a pistol, or by some such method of producing violont concussion. The atmospheric wave rolls alonf the tube, strikes against tho stock-fast carrior' and then rolls back again, and visibly vibrates the membrane. By accurately noting the ...

... to lower a boiler in the yard, and was knocking wedge from one side of the boiler, the latter gave sudden jerk, and the tube striking him on his head, so seriously injured him that he expired in the course of a few minutes. He has left a wife and four children ...

... was placed some detonating powder, and into it was pre tightly fixed a glass tube containing sulpfhuric acid. This on tube striking against any hard substance such as the side of ten a ship, breaks, and the sulphuric acid running into the ads detonating ...