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Scientific American, Vol. 8, No. 26 (1863) (1863)

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abundance of water power which fur- generally are extremely careless with combustible nishes an economical substitute for steam. We il- substances, or those that generate fire spontaneously. lustrate this week an improved turbine wheel which A large number of fires of “ unknown origin’’ may be… … water to thefullestextent, by the sense of smell. Had no person been at hand to discover the while at the upper side, where the greater obliquity obtained by addressing Elias Dohner, at Lancaster, cause and extinguish it, there would doubtless of the buckets, C, causes them to approach nearer Pa.…

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