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Scientific American, Vol. 23, No. 25 (1870) (1870)

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engraving shows a flexible joint used in There is, in short, an atmospheric “Gulf Stream,’ whose than a wooden hull, divided into eight water-tight compart- ments, with forty feet of the deck of iron, which draws, as laying 789 feet ef 10-in. cast-iron pipe, which has just been course, beginning… … adjust itself to any unevenness. There tensions of the uses of iron, instead of in was no dithculty in laying the pipe, al- monopoly prices which dwarf its uses, will is nearly the sume as that of the oceanic “ Gulf Stream,” and be found the sure foundation of the iron production.” though the…

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