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Scientific American, Vol. 5, No. 20 (November 1861) (1861)

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its place ; the connections can then be made,and when all is complete, a slight amount of heatapplied to the pipe will melt the wafer, and thus openthe communication between the gas main and thehouse or premises. Had such an apparatus as this been used by theworkmen of the Great Central Gas Company… … London papers contain accounts of a late trial inthe British metropolis with a new steam fire engine.The fire was lighted under a perfectly cold boiler, andthe steam was up at 90 lbs. pressure in sixteen and ahalf minutes. A jet of water was thrown out of a1 f -inch nozzle to a hight of ] 54 feet,…

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