Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 354
k wassupplemented by the use of ingenious chemicalprocesses to absorb the greater part of the rarefiedair which the pumps and other apparatus wereunable to remove. This precaution was absolutely necessary, for,as already stated, air presents an enormous re-sistance to objects which are traveling at… … 1 WELL, MY BOY, SAID THE DOCTOR, SINCE YOU ARE DETERMINIFUT THAT 1 SHALL HAVE TO LET YOU TAKE THE TRIP. (SEE PAGE 243.) amount of heat sufficient to damage the vehicleseriously. Along with the boring of the hole, the con-struction of the car had occupied the doctorsattention. Fortunately, there was…
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