Word: pail
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...avenue and Garden street became charged with electricity, so that every one who touched it received a shock. The remarkable power of water as a conducting agent was shown in the case of a man who was knocked down by a shock received in throwing water from a tin pail upon a burning block of a dynamo...
...Atkinson has been experimenting for some years, and he has now invented a cooking pail which he believes will save the waste. The apparatus consists of a tin-lined paper pail, surrounding a tin-lined paper pail, surrounding a tin pale of three compartments, heated by a common lamp. The heat in this pail cannot go above 320 degrees, which is the proper temperature at which to cook food, and by its use a man can get good food, properly cooked for a dollar a week, and the best of food for two dollars a week...
...Atkinson had a pail at work during the lecture, and the club tasted the food after the lecture and pronounced it delicious...