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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 206

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