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in the first place it must be observed that the bulb of the thermometer is protected so as to resist the pressure of the ocean, which varies according to depth, that of 3,000 fathoms being something like 3 tons pressure on the square inch. the new instrument is in shape like a syphon with parallel legs, all in one piece, and having a continuous communication, as shown in fig. 317. the scale of the thermometer is pivoted on a centre, and being attached in a vertical position to a simple apparatus (which will be presently described), is lowered to any depth that may be desired. in its descent the thermometer acts as an ordinary instrument, the mercury rising or falling according to the temperature of the stratum through which it passes; but so soon as the descent ceases, and a reverse motion is given to the line, so as to pull the thermometer towards the surface, the instrument turns once on its centre, first bulb uppermost, and afterwards bulb downwards. this causes the mercury, which was in the left-hand column, first to pass into the dilated syphon-bend at the top, and thence into the right-hand tube, where it remains, indicating on a graduated scale the exact temperature at the time the thermometer was turned over. the cut shows the position of the mercury _after_ the instrument has been turned on its centre. a is the bulb; b the outer coating or protecting cylinder; c is the space of rarefied air, which is reduced if the outer casing be compressed; d is a small glass plug, as in negretti and zambra’s maximum thermometer, which at the moment of turning cuts off the mercury in the tube from that in the bulb, thereby ensuring that none but the former can be transferred into the indicating column; e is an enlargement made in the bend, so as to enable the mercury to pass quickly from one tube to another in revolving; and f is the indicating tube, or thermometer proper. when the thermometer is put in motion, as soon as the tube has acquired a slightly oblique position, the mercury breaks off at the point d, runs into the curved and enlarged portion, e, and eventually falls into the tube, f, as the instrument resumes its original vertical position. the monkeys had set them down near a farmhouse, and the four travelers walked up to it and knocked at the door. it was opened by the farmer’s wife, and when dorothy asked for something to eat the woman gave them all a good dinner, with three kinds of cake and four kinds of cookies, and a bowl of milk for toto. he used a computer time-sharing service bureau, the same one as the oil companies. this thief read scratch tapes—temporary storage tapes without the safeguards protecting the main ones—by phone off the service’s computer. he was stealing secret seismic information to sell to the oilmen’s competitors. the development of the rural mail delivery and its relation to the better roads movement has been touched upon in chapter v. it will only be necessary to say here that the psychological effect of a daily mail upon the inhabitants of the rural districts has been most remarkable. through its means these people are no longer isolated, they know daily what is transpiring in the world; they are thinking of the great questions of finance, politics, and what not, at the same time as their fellows in other parts of the country. the nation is thus more or less unified, the country dweller looks and thinks of himself as an integral part of the whole. rural mail, telephone, the automobile, modern home conveniences and, now, radio telephony are rapidly making agriculture one of the great and desirable professions. the rural home need no longer be a place where there is nothing but ten hours’ work and six hours’ chores. the farmer of to-day, with his daily paper, his market reports, his books and magazines, his furnace-heated and electric-lighted house, his automobile ready at hand, is better off, more independent, and should be more happy and contented than those who dwell in the murky city.