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Inventors (1893)

Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 182

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ucing a high and uniform heat for hisexperiments, and he was unable to obtain it. Heused to bake his compound in his wifes bread-oven and steam it over the spout of her tea-kettle, and to press the kitchen fire into his ser-vice so far as it would go. When this failed, hewould go down to the shops… … 73 C _ns ao cUJ CD o 03 CL o <uo> £ ^ u re jr w j -o a o -^ 0) -^ -Q J DC •a a £ rt co X UJ (SCD OO 03 -C 0 170 INVENTORS he induced a bricklayer to make him an oven,and paid him in masons aprons of india-rubber.The oven was a failure. Sometimes it wouldturn out pieces of perfectly vulcanized…

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