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Scientific American, Vol. 31, No. 14 (1874) (1874)

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t system for 185 per cent. How many decades it will take for the ex- skilled workman, since its supersedes the manual labor (of raising sunken vessels and their cargoes, for working which penses to catch up with the earnings is an unsolved prob- which he has, through experience and practice,… … water that they may each workman feeds be more easily sunk 3,600 bodies. Inthe down to the wreck. time of Homer, the The water is afterwards displaced and air substituted. This mile as the American, largely on account of the heavy land same labor would have required 144 men, so that each mod-…

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