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Scientific American, New Series, Vol. 14, No. 18 (April 28, 1866) (1866)

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r post-office carriage of riage. A slot is also formed through the bottom of business. Not only are three or four hundred per- the train. The mail to be delivered from the train is the cylinder from one end to the other, so that the sons detained on their journey, but the pecuniary loss placed in a… … ing the momentum and then overcoming the inertia the arm which supports the mail bag to be picked up. supported therein by loops on its exterior, being of a heavy train on starting, soon reaches a consider- When the latter enters the cylinder, the mail bag to slid on to a rod fixed to the top of…

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