Note 544 — 2. RAPE.
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By a visit to Apothecaries’ Hall, or to any of the great manufacturing chemists, the stranger will be astonished at the number and utility of the applications of steam to the processes of Pharmacy.
M. Dupin, when speaking of the immense mechanical force set in action by the steam-engines of England, gives the following illustration of its amount:—The great pyramid of Egypt required for its erection the labour of above 100,000 men for twenty years; the action of the steam-engines in England, which are, at most, all managed by 36,000 men, would be sufficient to produce the same quantity of work, in 18 hours!!!