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Scientific American, Vol. 73, No. 5 (1895) (1895)

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Company, who recently discovered a va}- perhaps the largest derrick yet erected, and the most uable deposit of superior white marble immediately powerful in lifting capacity. This derrick covers a cir- below their already extensive workings, from which cle 160 feet. in diameter, and can raise or… … The boom fall runs back from the cap- house stood. stan to a snatch block at the side of the Thus kas the improvement society THE NEW CRANE, AVONDALE QUARRY. quarry, thence over the capstan house to made a drive about the beautiful old the top of the mast, through center of town a means of…

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