See Huc and Gabet.] in west China; and there coarse silk is produced. All Tibet he described as mountainous, and an inconceivably poor country: there are no plains, save flats in the bottoms of the valleys, and the paths lead over lofty ...
Huc and Gabet arrived in Macao in October 1846 full of plans to establish a mission in Lhasa but their dreams were soon to be dashed. They learned that the Vatican had granted the Society des Missions Etrangeres the exclusive right to ...
In 1866 and again in 1887, patents were filed for side-by-side Balancing Siphon pots which were virtually identical to Gabet's 1844 design, including his patented counterweight mechanism. Petsch and Buynitzky's 1868 ... By a fortuitous turn of events, a large number of these Silex brewers were sold to hotels and sandwich shops, providing large-scale exposure for the product. As a result, today the name Silex is almost synonymous with any glass vacuum pot. ...
