Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846: The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific,; Mechanical and Other ImprovementsVarious
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Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846: The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific,; Mechanical and Other Improvements
Various
Science -- Periodicals; Technology -- Periodicals
At Berlin and London the longest day has sixteen and a half hours. At
Stockholm and Upsal, the longest has eighteen and a half hours, and
the shortest five and a half. At Hamburg, Dantzic, and Stettin, the
longest day has seventeen hours, and the shortest seven. At St.
Petersburg and Tobolsk, the longest has nineteen, and the shortest
five hours. At Toreno, in Finland, the longest day has twenty-one
hours and a half, and the shortest two and a half. At Wandorbus, in
Norway, the day lasts from the 21st of May to the 22d of July, without
interruption; and in Spitzbergen, the longest day lasts three months
and a half.
=Excitement of Curiosity.=
The editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, having been one of a recent
excursion party on the opening of a new section of railroad, remarks
on the occasion, 'It is really amusing to see the sensation a train of
railroad cars produces on all animate beings, human and brute, for the
first few times it passes over a section of road. We saw herds of
cattle, sheep, and horses, stand for a few seconds and gaze at the
passing train, then turn and run for a few rods with all possible
speed, stop and look again with eyes distended, and head and ears
erect, seemingly so frightened at the tramp of the iron horse as to
have lost the power of locomotion. Men women and children also seemed
dumbfounded at the strange and unusual spectacle. As the cars came
rumbling along early in the morning, they seemed to bring everybody
out of bed, all eager to catch a glance as we whirled past. Old men
and women, middle-aged and youth, without waiting to put on a rag in
addition to their night gear, were seen at the doors, windows and
round the corners of log huts and dwellings, gaping with wonder and
astonishment at the new, and to them grand and terrific sight.'
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