d the want of some cheap andpowerful agent for that purpose, rendered the working of deepmines so expensive as to be almost ruinous to the proprietors,though otherwise highly productive. These incentivesproduced farther research and experiments, and in the year 1805,Thomas Newcomer, a smith, of…
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