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Scientific American, Vol. 22, No. 7 (February 1870) (1870)

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ed. These alternating only 8 pounds. This remarkable fact illustrates the advan- The western mouth of the tunnel is located in a deep ra- periods of idleness and activity have occupied fifteen years ; vine at the base or the mountain, about two miles south of tage of compressed air as a motor for… … expensive. which they carry ' " - ' ' ■'v/ih:vfiM/&M'ii'^':^:/^' 'Mm'T^"^/^- Up the mountain, things on indicates about half a mile a completion of the tunnel much earlier than the date of the tunnels, and other difflcult places ; the exhausting air also beyond the end of the brick tunnel, a…

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