" Only this shows you how useless knowledge is unless you apply it. I suppose you know - everybody knows nowadays - that, as a usual thing, the air has weight, that it presses on everything at the surface of the earth, presses in all directions, with a pressure of fourteen and a half pounds to the square inch? " "Well, so soon as it reached a temperature of 60 Fahr, and the process of its manufacture was complete, the air above it, the portions of roof and ceiling and floor above it ceased to have weight. "You are quite clear that the stuff is opaque to gravitation, that it cuts off things from gravitating towards each other? " And the premature birth of his invention took place just as he was coming across the field to my bungalow for our afternoon talk and tea.
Consequently Gibbs ceased to replenish the furnace, and no one else did so, and Cavor was too much immersed in certain interesting problems concerning a Cavorite flying machine (neglecting the resistance of the air and one or two other points) to perceive that anything was wrong. But Spargus insisted on Gibbs doing the coaling, seeing that he was a joiner and that coal is notoriously fossil wood.
Gibbs, who had previously seen to this, had suddenly attempted to shift it to the man who had been a gardener, on the score that coal was soil, being dug, and therefore could not possibly fall within the province of a joiner the man who had been a jobbing gardener alleged, however, that coal was a metallic or ore-like substance, let alone that he was cook. But it chanced that, unknown to Cavor, dissension had arisen about the furnace tending. Unless he had miscalculated, the last stage in the combination would occur when the stuff sank to a temperature of 60 Fahr.
He had fused together a number of metals and certain other things - I wish I knew the particulars now ! - and he intended to leave the mixture a week and then allow it to cool slowly. Oddly enough, it was made at last by accident, when Mr. On the 14th of October, 1899, this incredible substance was made! The creation of an antigravity metal was somewhat unexpected, and therefore created quite a stir.
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