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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 192

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459- CURIOUS BOATS.A Russian canoe rig. Boomand gaff extending forward.Forward part of boat covered.Halyards extend to cockpitfor easy management by oneperson. The boom is elasticand bends before the wind ;a fad of doubtful efficiency. 460. CURIOUSBOATS. The Sand-wich Islands catama-ran. A narrow… … 461. CURIOUS BOATS. A Bom-bay yacht, with Malay rig. A curiouslyformed bottom. This rig is of thelatteen type of the Mediterranean,with short masts inclined forward,yards hung at the center of the windpressure. 192 NAVIGATION, VESSELS, MARINE APPLIANCES, ETC.

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