id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 13962 Various Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 .txt text/plain 40385 2072 69 mean annual temperature of the air at the particular place. of water have run for years at 155 degrees, and smaller bodies at 170 from the Comstock by means of the water pumped out and cold air forced in, having dissolved in hot water the requisite quantity of cupric sulphate, I The water was brought to the wheel by a discharge-pipe, water pumped from any one shaft was something over 30 cubic feet a minute; head of water at this point is a few feet greater than at the other caused by alternations of temperature and combined action of air, water, hours, to the various mining companies, of 21,120,000 cubic feet of water, hour--1,000 miner's inches being equal to 106,600 cubic feet of water per 1877 the mean temperature of the air was 61.2°, of the Thames water 63.3°, closed by means of a large plate of iron 6 inches thick, 10 feet in ./cache/13962.txt ./txt/13962.txt