tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND -CHAPTER 33

JULES VERNE -THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 33 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | JULES VERNE THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND CHAPTER 33 Winter arrived with the month of June which is the December of the northern zones and the great business was the making of warm and solid clothing. The musmons in the corral had been stripped of their wool and this precious textile material was now to be transformed into stuff. Of course Cyrus Harding having at his disposal neither carders combers polishers stretchers twisters mule-jenny nor self-acting machine to spin the wool nor loom to weave it was obliged to proceed in a simpler way so as to do without spinning and weaving. And indeed he proposed to make use of the property which the filaments of wool possess when subjected to a powerful pressure of mixing together and of manufacturing by this simple process the material called felt. This felt could then be obtained by a simple operation which if it diminished the flexibility of the stuff increased its power of retaining heat in proportion. Now the wool furnished by the musmons was composed of very short hairs and was in a good condition to be felted. The engineer aided by his companions including Pencroft who was once more obliged to leave his boat commenced the preliminary operations the subject of which was to rid the wool of that fat and oily substance with which it is impregnated and which is called grease. This cleaning was done in vats filled with water which was maintained at the temperature of seventy degrees and in which the wool was soaked for four-and-twenty hours it was then thoroughly washed in baths of soda and when sufficiently dried by pressure it was in a state to be compressed that is to say to produce a solid material rough no doubt and such as would have no value in a manufacturing center of Europe or America but which would be highly esteemed in the Lincoln Island markets. This sort of material must have been known from the most ancient times and in fact the first woolen stuffs were manufactured by the process which Harding was now about to .