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Scientific American, Vol. 55, No. 4 (1886) (1886)

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Price 10 Cents. NEW YORK, JULY 24, 1886. Vol. LV.--No. a) $3.00 per Year. (NEW SERIEs.] cently renewed by Messrs. Samuel & John Secor, of specially constructed yacht, the Eureka. Incited by the admitted loss of ninety odd percent in the trans- EXPLOSION OF PETROLEUM VAPOR. Brooklyn, who have… … decidedly more unique. A transverse bulkhead di- by the omission of shaft and propeller. They sub- vides the vessel about amidships. Anup- stituted a centrifugal pump, and effected right steel boiler of 25 horse power is lo- propulsion by the large volumes of water cated immediately back of the…

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