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Posted inDaily News Engineering Iron & Steam

Lighthouses Illuminated by Electricity

Prof. Faraday, of London, in the Philosophical Magazine for April, expresses a favorable opinion of the electric spark for light house purposes, and states that the experiment, last winter, in…
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Posted inUS Civil War

August 12, 1861 – A Chance for Patriotic Ladies

Gov. Moore having donated the materials for making several thousand suits of clothes for our volunteers, the idea has been suggested that the patriotic ladies of our city would, if…
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