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I V I I * VI*V %/«'•»»!» • • • v/ » lt;• • « - —' — *• --gree lessened, wo trus-t the plan will not gain favor.Professor Wise, the veteran balloonist, says balloons may be made of boiler iron, if built largo enough. He says it is a battle of cubes and surfaces. When the surface is doubled the cube is quadrupled, and a balloon 400 feet in diameter, of copper boiler plate, would lift up a man-of-war vessel and sail away with it. Ho predicts greatachievements for meteorology when ballooning reaches its full development. _____The first complete sewing machine waspatented by Ellas Howe, Jr., in 1846.
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Kansas City Daily Journal of Commerce
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, Feb 03, 1878
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