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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 536

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this stick. TWO TOPS, ONE SPINNING ON TOP OF THE OTHER. Lower top is a heavy plate-top, the upper one alight saucer. In the top of a two-inch stick make acup-shaped hollow. Whittle the other end to a point.Spin plate-top, place wooden stick in spool, point down-ward, insert peg of saucer-top in… … DISK SERVING AS GUIDE IN FASTENING SPOOLS. was fastened in center for top to spin on. The disk wasof cardboard five and a half inches in diameter, and thepropeller blades of wood, each two inches long and oneinch at greatest width. Drawing illustrates mechanismof boat so perfectly that further…

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