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Scientific American, Vol. 46, No. 15 (1882) (1882)

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gine operat- of Mr. Madsen differs from ing a cable system by means that devised by Colonel Talia- | of which the cars are hauled ferro P. Shaffner, who was one by one up the slope to the the first to propose a North a topof thepier. The hitching Atlantic cable, inasmuch .as a of the car to the… … twenty miles south of Reyk- barges, schooners, square javik, running it under- rigged vessels, and other ship ground to that city. Thence ping, receiving coal or waiting their turn to haul alongside it is to go south of Cape Farewell to Julianshope, Greenland. Mr. William H. Ertell, of New York…

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