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Scientific American, Vol. 81, No. 5 (1899) (1899)

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ry Davy was the ground. The front wheels are five feet in diameter, been used with considerable suecess on one of the {..st to establish the existence in lime of a metallic and are similarly constructed. Steering is effected by largest sugar plantations. body, and by decomposing it by an electric… … plaster of Paris is carried out in the cold. The ob- metal is rather soft and may be cut witha knife. It jects are subsequently rinsed off and dried. The sur- may bebroken by striking it, and the fracture presents face becomes very hard after two days and insoluble a crystalline structure. Its…

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