The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

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LIQUID AIR.

Liquefaction of Gases by Northmore--1805, Faraday--1823, Bussy--1824, Thilorier--1834, and others. Liquefaction of Oxygen, Nitrogen and Air, by Pictet and Cailletet in 1877. Self-Intensification of Cold by Siemens in 1857, and Windhausen in 1870. Operations of Dewar, Wroblewski, and Olszewski. Self-Intensifying Processes of Solvay, Tripler, Lindé, Hampson, and Ostergren and Berger. Liquid Air Experiments and Uses.