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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 538

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cant space west ofthe Exchange, and some distance along Cheapside. TheAmerican competitor could light a given space for lessthan one-half the cost of the lowest of the others. The use of electro-motors is a matter which is now at-tracting a vast amount of study, investigation and ex-pectation. The… … 534 ELECTEICITY AND ITS APPLIANCES. was useless to attempt its construction; but now thatcoal has entered the field as a competitor, the questionof expense is eliminated. It is quite within the limits ofthe possible that, in the next five years, electricity willbe found as common as steam for the…

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