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Scientific American, Vol. 76, No. 9 (February 1897) (1897)

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An illustration from Scientific American, Vol. 76, No. 9 (February 1897), 1897, leaf 3
some two minutes before the first blasts of the storm tion, which gave an average speed, including stops, of wrench which may be quickly and easily adjusted to a occur. In the engraving the main mercury tube is 63"61 miles an hour. nut of any size and its jaws firmly locked in adjusted represented… … The distance traveled was 3,212 miles, and the time main normally ALAEM. two minutes. This journey goes into history as the was 3 days, 12 hours and 42 minutes, or an average speed of equal or greatest railroad feat ever accomplished. of 37'9 miles an hour. nearly equal height in ordinary changes…

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