" All left the saloon, passed through the library and the dining-room, and arrived forward, in the machine-room where the electrical apparatus was established, which supplied not only heat and light, but the mechanical power of the "Nautilus.
The mechanism of this apparatus was as simple as those used in the rustic sawmills of Norway.
The ladders, which were formerly used for the ascent, were brought to the Chimneys and buried deep in the sand, so that they might be available on the return of the colonists, for the machinery of the lift had been taken to pieces, and nothing of the apparatus remained.
"But," said Herbert, "perhaps some accident has happened to the telegraphic apparatus, so that it works no longer?
'" This was the opinion of all, and the reporter, going to the telegraphic apparatus which placed the corral in communication with Granite House, sent this telegram:—"Come with all possible speed.
The apparatus had been placed at one of the windows of the dining-room at Granite House, and consequently overlooked the shore and the bay.
Retort coal, that is to say, the hard graphite which is found in the retorts of gas manufactories, after the coal has been dehydrogenized, could have been obtained, but it would have been necessary to establish a special apparatus, involving great labor.
As usual, Pencroft was delighted with his work, and had no doubt that the apparatus was perfect.
"You once spoke of an apparatus which would take the place of the long ladders at Granite House, captain," said he; "won't you make it some day?
It was evident that this chest had been thrown overboard from some dismasted vessel driven towards the island, and that, in the hope that it would reach the land, where they might afterwards find it, the passengers had taken the precaution to buoy it up by means of this floating apparatus.
This word refining need not awake in the mind thoughts of an elaborate manufactory with apparatus and numerous workmen.
As to the rounds, they were made of a sort of red cedar, with light, strong branches; and this apparatus was wrought by the masterly hand of Pencroft.
Considerable works are necessary—a special set of tools, an apparatus of platina, leaden chambers, unassailable by the acid, and in which the transformation is performed, etc.
Now this beginning of which the engineer spoke was the construction of an apparatus which would serve to transform the natural substances.
" And he showed the apparatus which served for a burning-glass.
He took Herbert to some distance from the nests, and there prepared his singular apparatus with all the care which a disciple of Izaak Walton would have used.
For several hours he roamed round the nearly-deserted square, surveying the apparatus.
The apparatus in the air is like a balance of mathematical precision.
Certain seeds which are required to find a nidus for themselves under unfavourable circumstances have been supplied by nature with an apparatus of hooks, so that they will get a hold on very unreceptive surfaces.
But when this small apparatus of shallow quickness was fetched away in the gig by Luke, and the study was once more quite lonely for Tom, he missed her grievously.
