gold-beaters

On the 11th of December, 1783, a little balloon, made of gold-beaters 'skin, was let off publicly at Turin.

Wonderful Balloon Ascents

It was at this time (September, 1783) that those small balloons, made of gold-beaters 'skin, which are used as children's toys to the present day, were first made.

Wonderful Balloon Ascents

His skin, like that of the porpoise, is as thin as gold-beaters 'leaf.

Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

In 1902, Colonel Templer, at that time head of the Balloon Section, obtained the necessary sanction to commence experiments, and two envelopes of gold-beaters skin of

British Airships, Past, Present, and Future George Whale

He put one hundred and fifty thousand strong men in the forests and in the quarries, getting out the finest timber and the best stone; he had these materials brought by sea and by land; he employed workers in brass, and stone-cutters and gold-beaters wherever he could find the most skillful, regardless of the cost, and he himself directed the work.

"Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues Wade C. Smith

It has, also, been argued that the masks for some of the characters were made of gold-beaters skin, or some transparent substance just covering the face so that the facial muscles could be seen through it, and the eyes, mouth, and ears being left uncovered.

A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent

In the umber shadows of dusky _tokos_, gold-beaters fashion those red-gold ornaments rich in barbaric beauty, for which

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

His gold watch-chain was so massive, that a fancy came across me, that he ought to have a sinewy golden arm, to draw it out with, like those which are put up over the gold-beaters’ shops.

XXIII. I Corroborate Mr. Dick and Choose a Profession 1917

He explained the difficulties of the airship builder, the expense and tendency to "pinholes" of gold-beaters 'skin, the curious fact that chemists had so far failed to discover a gasproof varnish.

Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

Bell had used a disc of fragile gold-beaters 'skin with a patch of sheet-iron glued to the centre.

The History of the Telephone 1910