Old-world Questions and New-world AnswersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 369 pages |
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... very powerful currents obtain- able from dynamo - electric machines , in combination with a simple but very ingenious plan of passing coils of wire of any length continuously through the plating vats 24 NEW ENGLAND - ANSONIA .
... very powerful currents obtain- able from dynamo - electric machines , in combination with a simple but very ingenious plan of passing coils of wire of any length continuously through the plating vats 24 NEW ENGLAND - ANSONIA .
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... passed through the cheerful offices and admired the trim girl - clerks , our attention is pointedly drawn to a new system of fire - prevention , now coming into use throughout manu- facturing New England . These mountain towns are well ...
... passed through the cheerful offices and admired the trim girl - clerks , our attention is pointedly drawn to a new system of fire - prevention , now coming into use throughout manu- facturing New England . These mountain towns are well ...
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... , across which the train runs for several miles before striking the latter river . On the way , we passed the little town of Sheffield , an island of houses in a sea of ploughed fields and AMONG THE BERKSHIRE HILLS . 61.
... , across which the train runs for several miles before striking the latter river . On the way , we passed the little town of Sheffield , an island of houses in a sea of ploughed fields and AMONG THE BERKSHIRE HILLS . 61.
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... passed under the track and is travelling westward , while crags and precipices , on the other side , represent the breaking crests of another undulation advancing from the eastward , Northwards , spanning the valley and bounding the ...
... passed under the track and is travelling westward , while crags and precipices , on the other side , represent the breaking crests of another undulation advancing from the eastward , Northwards , spanning the valley and bounding the ...
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... passed through an agricultural crisis , and if she has been spared an “ agri- cultural depression , " that is because the Yankee farmer is a schemer of the same kind , although not in the same degree , as the Connecticut man . Driven ...
... passed through an agricultural crisis , and if she has been spared an “ agri- cultural depression , " that is because the Yankee farmer is a schemer of the same kind , although not in the same degree , as the Connecticut man . Driven ...
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