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Scientific American, Vol. 23, No. 17 (1870) (1870)

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en so extensive as to be almost visible to the naked eye. shutter; from rust and strain, also, the screws by which the and seven feet in diameter, 2,000 sheep skins can be tanned in plates are affixed to the shutter, and the riveted staples and the best possible manner in from four to six days with… … made self-locking after the cylinder, in which the hides shutters are closed, and fast- to be tanned are placed as here- ened by cutting the slot at the end of the bolt, a little wider, luminary, and the auroras which render our nights brilliant inafter described. Tbe construction of the cylinder,…

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