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Scientific American, Vol. 29, No. 23 (1873) (1873)

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. of steam, easily lifted 4,800 lbs. 200 feet per min- nently placed on the decks of steam vessels as a substitute or remain at rest. A regular and steady power, it is claimed, ute, raising, lowering, or holding its load at any point with for the ordinary form of winch, and will doubtless prove of… … value in lifting blocks from quarries. Its arrangement is feet per minute. The boiler in this case was of the type such, it is claimed, as especially to fit it for ousdoor labor, as its working parts are all within the cylinder, and hence pro- tected. We are informed that it is made of but ten…

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