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Scientific American, Vol. 93, No. 13 (1905) (1905)

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the sand cannot be seen and the natural curiosity of the child is aroused to such an extent by the mysterious power within the toy that he is very liable to destroy the toy in order to discover the secret of its action. It has occurred to Mr. Harvey I. Dedrick, 26 South Center Street, an annular… … set of ports in the corresponding valve. When a valve The illusion consists in showing a floating automo- is pressed, the shorter tube is cut out and the longer bile about four feet above the stage, in motion, appar- tube is brought into action to provide a correspondingly ently traveling in the…

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