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It is self - illustrating ; inasmuch as , treating of India - rubber , it is made of India - rubber . An unobBervant reader , h wever , would scarcely suspect the fact before reading the Preface , for the India - rubber covers resemble ...
It is self - illustrating ; inasmuch as , treating of India - rubber , it is made of India - rubber . An unobBervant reader , h wever , would scarcely suspect the fact before reading the Preface , for the India - rubber covers resemble ...
Сторінка 310
Every one remembers the thick and ill - shaped India - rubber shoes of twenty years ago , which had to be thawed out under the stove before they could be put on , and which , if left under the stove too long , would dissolve into gum ...
Every one remembers the thick and ill - shaped India - rubber shoes of twenty years ago , which had to be thawed out under the stove before they could be put on , and which , if left under the stove too long , would dissolve into gum ...
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Who would have thought to find a romance in the history of India - rubber ? We are familiar with the stories of poor and friendless men , possessed with an idea and pursuing their object , amid obloquy , neglect , and suffering , to the ...
Who would have thought to find a romance in the history of India - rubber ? We are familiar with the stories of poor and friendless men , possessed with an idea and pursuing their object , amid obloquy , neglect , and suffering , to the ...
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Its elasticity was turned to ac ount in France in the manufacture of suspenders and garters , threads of India - rubber being inserted in the web . In England , Mackintosh invented his still celebrated water - proof coats , which are ...
Its elasticity was turned to ac ount in France in the manufacture of suspenders and garters , threads of India - rubber being inserted in the web . In England , Mackintosh invented his still celebrated water - proof coats , which are ...
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The Company could not buy his improved inflator ; but let him learn how to make an India - rubber that would stand ... The public soon became tired of buying Indiarubber shoes that could only be saved during the summer by putting them ...
The Company could not buy his improved inflator ; but let him learn how to make an India - rubber that would stand ... The public soon became tired of buying Indiarubber shoes that could only be saved during the summer by putting them ...
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able America appears Astor believe Burr Calhoun called captain carried cause character church Clay College Congress Constitution course Daniel desire dollars duty early effect election England fact father feeling five friends gave Girard give given hand happy heart Henry honor hundred India-rubber interest Jackson John kind labor land learned leave less letters lived look manner means mind nature never newspaper object once opinion party passed person political present President question Randolph readers reason received remained remarkable Republican respecting seemed ship soon South Southern speech success things thought thousand thousand dollars tion United Virginia Washington Webster whole writing York young youth
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| Назва | Famous Americans of Recent Times |
| Автор | James Parton |
| Опубліковано | 1893 |
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