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Scientific American, Vol. 31, No. 2 (1874) (1874)

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tern settlers, when a prairie is in fl.mes, find that the or]y and beet means of protecting menaced property is to nature are now employed. to be accounted for, at every station on the line at which a plow up the ground around the latter for a width of several yards. Over this the fire cannot pass,… … By a slight change in the adjustment of not only could whole buildings, during ‘the nut, the machine can be converted into great fires, be quickly demolished, but, in a tramper press, the screwand follower being used to pound smaller conflagrations, the dynamite cartridge could be ad- connected…

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