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Put it another way. The ively 1,14 and 14 inches in diameter. The tower is boiler is holding up the equivalent weight of 22,620 persons, all robust athletes, foot- ball players, each weighing 180 pounds. Let us look at the matter from a slightly differ- ent standpoint. The best authorities agree… … expended in imparting momentum to a AN IRON WATER TOWER. eannon ball weighing one ton and hurled vertically. It would rise 30 miles. Contrast the pressure at which boilers are usnally worked 40 feet square at the foundation. The cornice is of with those exerted by great winds. A _ hurricane…

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