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Scientific American, Vol. 74, No. 22 (May 1896) (1896)

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great durability ; second, a horse can draw on a should send one dispatch, which after passing over the steel track twenty times as much as on a dirt road and essary for the support of a large population do not globe and back should be received by Thomas A. Edi- five times as much as on the best… … WONDERFUL FALL OF HAILSTONES. bridges broad steel plates have been laid along that Four minutes after the dispatch of the message, Mr. Adams forwarded an answer to Mr. Depew along the part of the road wheretravel is greatest. Thecurbsof Western Union wires over the same route, which read: the…

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