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The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)

Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 213

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nd in hquids; it gives the formula for the ^baking-powder; it has discovered all the thousand dyes in usein stuffs for wear; it bleaches cloths, it washes them; itdisinfects the nests of epidemics, prevents the spread ofdisease, is the principal assistant of the sanitarian; itpurifies the food we… … CHAPTEE XIY. PEEPETUAL MOTION. SOME details connected witli tlae search for perpet-ual motion will be of yalue, if simply to demonstrateits impossibility. It may be supposed that the searchfor this kind of a movement died out when alchemy hadrun its course, some one or two hundred years ago.That…

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