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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 582

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& Co., which has brought forth asmany wonderful improvements as any mechanical concern in the world. Although it is impossible to explain in language comprehensible to theman who is not an engineer how this monarch among printing presses doesits work at a rate of speed which is well-nigh… … FIRST PERFECTING PltESS. or six-page newspaper in one hour. It will require some figuring to conveyan adequate idea of how fast that is, for, as a matter of fact, it is faster thana man can think, and that is why I say that the speed of the machine out-strips the flight of imagination. Ninety…

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