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Show L A it JH'roTcrj In Mr-aia. Washington Siur. The quiet study of science is always Hie prologue pro-logue of often an incident in a physical revolution. It was thus that Sir Humphrey Davy anj Charles Darwin, aud in an earlier time Galileo and Xew ton made their names immortal and gave to the world discoveries that blessed and elevated humanity, and now,lesIdes Tyndalland Helmholtz and Edison, Edi-son, there are scores of lev known ttudenU of nature w ho are using U force as brnlsona on their race through all tho ages. One of Uiuse obscure w orker no longer to sit in a back seat, If the reports puLlLtlird to-day of his discovery be strictly veracious lives in Bridgeport, Conn, itefore a society of engineers, he clalnn to ha e demonstrated by experiments that there Is In some boilers, under certain circumstances, ; a property of steam that will cause an instantaneous doubling of pres-: pres-: ure w itbout Hie application of heat. This property accounts for so many mysterious boiler explosions by which large numbers of lives are lost and property destroj ed. According to the statement at hand the experiments experi-ments wire all successful, and the discovery wj fully established. |