Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 408
ings him to 457, opposite number 1, whence he started. Thatodd numbers should be on one side of the street, and even num-bers on the other, did not occur to the city fathers of Londoncenturies ago. In this regard a forward step was taken in Phila-delphia, where the streets parallel with the… … Sectional book-case, desk,and drawers. Numbering as aFine Art. 352 SIMPLIFICATION the first door above Ninth Street, on the right, is 901, althoughthe house next below it, across Ninth Street, is 839; and so onwith all parallel streets. If the thoroughfares in Philadelphia,running at right angles…
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