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Scientific American, Vol. 47, No. 16 (1882) (1882)

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devised for signaling by ing light of. dawn, the comet as a whole rivaled in beauty tle heeding the commotion it had caused among the dwellers sound, a species of gigantic fire cracker, for example, or and magnitude the great comet of 1858 (Donati’s) seen under on this small planet. Daily the… … working smith by the name of Johnstone, who proposed it tle present short period by the theory that at the-two pre- in 1823 for the Thames Tunnel, in lieu of the plan adopted The cut herewith represents, as well as an engraving can, vious returns, it passed so near the sun as to graze the solar by…

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