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 566
re made on this occasionbefore this was effected, and more than a dozen of thebest and the most skillful workmen were driven backone after another by the tremendous heat and glare.At last all was made clear. The forceps, then red-hotfrom their grip of the plate, were drawn away, thechains cleared…
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