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Scientific American, Vol. 16, No. 21 (1867) (1867)

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f the struct- with the pressure of millions of moving tuns, and the crash reeling, lifted her out of the water; and the floes, still press- ure, have just been sold at auction,and this has somewhat re- and noise and confusion are truly terrific. We are now in the ing on and breaking, as they were… … Polar dynamics, and we became uncomfortably conscious that the elevating power of a thousand jack screws, we found our- thirty-four in number. At the sale, eight lots on Fifth Av- selves going slowly up in the air. the schooner was to become a sort of dynamometer. Vast enue brought an average of…

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