Excerpt from Liquid Air and the Liquefaction of Gases
Over twenty years have elapsed since air was liquefied on the large or manufacturing scale. It was handled in ordinary Containers, dippers, tumblers or barrels just like water, and with far less precaution than is exacted by the acids of commerce. As it inevitably evaporated and if confined would develop an enormous pressure, the vessels employed to contain it were necessarily open. The story of liquid air and of the liquefaction of other gases reads like a fairy tale. But the world has become so satiated with miracles of science that it has almost forgotten how to wonder.
In Gulliver's veracious account of his travels we read of the work done in the famous Academy of Logado. In one department fifty men were at work under the superintendence of the universal artist, as one of the illustrious investigators was called. These men were engaged in various occupations. "Some were condensing air into a dry tangible substance by extracting the niter, and letting the aqueous or fluid particles percolate." So says the great Dean, selecting the solidification of air as one of the impossibilities worthy of embodiment in his sarcastic romance.
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