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Scientific American, Vol. 61, No. 21 (1889) (1889)

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ided track by a series of nozzles, equally spaced, which with a line of pallets through which, by means of wa- project it against a series of curved pallets fixed ter projected against them by nozzles along the track, beneath the vehicles and which form a sort of recti- propulsion is effected.… … friction, and the slide was wanting in Fig. 4.-THEORETICAL LONGITUDINAL SECTION OF stability. Let us add that the step hasa A PROPELLING APPARATUS. P, slides. R, rail. A, pallets. B, nozzle. spherical bearing surface with a sufficient D, stop valve. C, leather diaphragm for counterbalancing the…

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