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Scientific American, Vol. 55, No. 11 (1886) (1886)

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uchcocks are numerous in a city like Paris, to cite but that city alone, is supplied by nine com- panies, whose lines of piping are independent, so that, The curtain fastener herewith illustrated is the in- and er still more so in the dwellings, for the various vention of Mr. Wm. Wiedemann, of… … without such a precaution, ram strokes would occur. The cock being charged, it suffices, in order to get each of which is equal to a second rate capital only. cular recess and the outer portions form thumb wings, water, to push the handle down. When once the flow It very naturally results that…

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