"Batwing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that of Mr. Loiseau, consisting of an ordinary gas-burner (fish-tail, bat's-wing, etc.), carrying at its side a "conflagrator," analogous to that of the spirit-lighter (Fig. 1), but arranged vertically. One of the rods of the "conflagrator" is connected with the positive of the pile, and the other with the little horizontal brass rod which is placed at the bottom of the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various |
