The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 222
counteract the increasedweight of the wire as it paid out the miles; itwas screwed firmly to a stout platform built outfrom the side of the ship. Utmost care was takento prevent the wire kinking, for when it kinked registered the temperature, set itself, and stayedset. There was a little box which… … A GLIMPSE INTO THE WORLD WITHOUT A SUN. it broke; otherwise, as the professor said, itwould hold a buckskin mule with black stripesaround his legs. The weight to carry the wiredown was attached to its end, and when bottomwas reached this weight came oft automaticallyand stayed down forever. Here…
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