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Scientific American, Vol. 90, No. 20 (May 14, 1904) (1904)

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as been held in England companying illustrations is for nearly twenty years, the invention of Mr. E. Max having been won by Sir Gotterman, of Melbourne, Richard Sutton’s cutter “Genesta” in 1885. The Australia; and it is an ex- ceedingly simple yet ingeni- “Genesta,” it will be re- ous apparatus,… … paper, thus lighting the heavy sea, in which the cut- match. The lighted match ter completely outsailed the is thrust beneath the gratc schooner. Only one attempt has been made since the cup of a stove, and lights the fire. It can also be made to went to England to recover it, and this was by the…

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