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Scientific American, Vol. 40, No. 24 (1879) (1879)

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applied. The machine is contrived so that the of half a century—there is the whole span of American pos- To measure the effect of the apparatus we can assume that sibilities; there is the whole story of an American fortune, 39°37 inches of height through which the water falls, is equal speed, and… … is a very simple matter to apply the tion to his great educational work. pulleys and arrange it to operate by The problem of the “strike,” which means of a belt when desirable. This confronts the best minds of capitalists and laboring men to-day with its costly and menacing pos- machine was…

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