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    Some Reasons for American Success

    The Speed of Ice Yachts

    The Fisheries of the United States

    By H. C. Hovey

    Coal Tipping Machines and Screens

    Combined Corkscrew and Bottle Faucet

    Novel Barrel Hoop

    New Wind Mill

    Engineering Inventions

    An Electric Lamp for an English Shilling

    On a Resonant Tuning Fork

    By Th. A. Edison

    A Mammoth Plow

    Steam Pavement Rammer

    Miscellaneous Inventions

    The Flying Fox

    Agricultural Inventions

    American Industries.--No. 22

    Mechanical Inventions

    Mysterious Clock

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    November 08, 1879

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