Meanings of goldbeater in English

The skins used by the goldbeater are produced from the offal of animals.

For the records here recorded either glass or goldbeater's skin was used as a diaphragm.

The Hungary water was immediately brought to bathe it, and goldbeater's skin applied to stop the blood.

They are made of goldbeater's skin, and range in capacity from 7,000 to 10,000 cubic feet, the majority being of the former capacity.

Dismissing considerations of cost, goldbeaters' skin would doubtless have been more suitable.

Of several the faces are black as tar, the lips hugely distended-theheads of negroes blown out in goldbeaters' skin.

Fifteen thicknesses of goldbeaters' skin-about the most expensive covering obtainable-wereused for the envelope, which was 25 feet in diameter.

Goldbeater's skin has the advantage of being very sensitive, and it must be used if the subject has not a resonant voice.

"In our line of business they ought to fetch more than the new, like goldbeaters' tools."

A certain Baron de Beaumanoir made the first balloon of goldbeaters' skin, this being eighteen inches in diameter, and using hydrogen as a lifting factor.

The next attempt was more ambitious, made with a goldbeaters' skin balloon containing 4,000 cubic feet of gas, and carrying automatic instruments of precision.