Sunbeams Out of Cucumbers
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor’s gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable rate…
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Context: Touring the Grand Academy of Lagado, Gulliver meets the first of its many projectors.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Part III, Chapter V