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The figures denote Greenwich time when the line marked Meridian of Greenwich is brought opposite to them.

THE

SCIENTIFIC PHENOMENA

OF

DOMESTIC LIFE.

FAMILIARLY EXPLAINED

BY

CHARLES FOOTE GOWER, ESQ.

SECOND EDITION,

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

1847.

BUHRI GRAD
GIFT
09115106

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.

CHAPTER II.

THE BED-ROOM.

Frost on the window. Apparent temperature of different articles. Un-
healthiness of sleeping with the air excluded. Animal heat. Venti-
lation. Difference between hard and soft water. Soap-bubbles.

The boiling kettle.

rents of air.

CHAPTER III.

THE BREAKFAST PARLour.

Steam. Steam-engine. Caloric or heat. Cur-

Reasons for fires not drawing well. Smell of soot

in warm weather. Land and sea breezes of tropical climates.

Circulation of air. Bright tea-pots better than dull ones. Woollen

a bad conductor of heat. Dissolving sugar in tea, useful hint de-

duced from it.

CHAPTER IV.

THE MORNING WALK.

Breath visible on a frosty morning. Hoar-frost. Formation of ice.
Expansion and contraction. Latent heat. Evaporation. Visible
vapour. Clouds and rain. Southerly and northerly winds. Snow.
Hail. Vegetation. Temperature.