Scientific American 517 JUNE 23, 1900. … tion until the candles have attained the desired thick- ness and testing their diameters, from time to time, by passing an iron or copper ring over them. When is turned slowly by hand. The operation is repeated on large reels in skeins of 400 or 500 meters (about all the candles exactly fit the…
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