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Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries (1910)

Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, The N. W. Henley publishing company · leaf 125

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287. FOG-HORN BUOY. A float anchoredat the edge of banks with an air pump operated bythe waves. The action of the sea is utilized in sucha manner as to blow desired blasts through a fog-horn by means of the compression and release of airinto and from a suitable air-tight chamber forming aportion of… … 288. ORIENTAL IRRIGATION WORKS of ye olden time and yet in use. An in-genious device for theage in which it originated. The ox-hide bucketand spout drawn by oxenwith hues D and E soarranged that the spoutline was stopped at Hand the bucket raised toautomatically empty thewater into the…

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