He inserted the nozzle of the cylinder, with an obscene deliberation, twice into each black nostril in turn, and luxuriously inhaled the benzedrine vapour.
It's a very long cylinder with conical ends. It noticeably takes the shape of a cigar, a shape already adopted in London for several projects of the same kind.
This involves melting the polymer and pushing the resulting liquid through a hollow needle, out of a hole in the needle's tip and onto a spinning drum, where it cools and solidifies.
During the first half of August, if we look at the lower branches of the pine trees, we shall discover, here and there on the foliage, certain little whitish cylinders spotting the green.
The automotive industry has been doing basically the same thing for 100 years, namely putting flammable liquid in confined metal cylinders, blowing it up by either flame or pressure and generating power from it.