Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 656
for at that rate if a fly couldhold himself on to the rim of the big wheel,he would travel more than six miles aminute. The big top can not be set up and spunanywhere. It has to have a carefully made case in which to run. This case looks like ahuge turnip, and is made of metal. The airis pumped… … THE COMPLETED TOP AS IT LAY IN THE SHOP WHERE IT WAS MADE arranged so that while the top is running,case and all can be inclined at an angle, eitherforward or backward. This provision for tilting the top while itis spinning is to enable it to do its work; forthis huge affair, which took ten months…
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