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Scientific American, Vol. 53, No. 6 (1885) (1885)

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ently the electric current, and variable from one telephone duct. bears alternately against a tooth and a hollow of it. to another. The powder of cork is met with in trade under the A number of wires equal to that of the springs estab- name of déegine, and is used in place of lycopodium The timbre,… … proper thickness in about eight years, but a tree is not unbarked until it is twenty or thirty yearsold. A young tree will give six to eleven pounds of cork, while an old tree will yield 250 to 350 pounds. A brush spring causes the cur- This bears The manufacture of corks for bottles dates from the…

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