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Nevertheless Barbicane professed opposite principles to these and put them in force at every opportunity.book33 It will easily be understood thatbook75 furnaces were not too many to melt simultaneously these tons of iron. It became necessary to employ very powerful pumps and compressedair engines to drain it off so as to close up the orifice from whence it issued just as one stops a leak on board ship. Each of these furnaces contained nearly pounds weight of metal. This depth was doubled in December and trebled in January.... read all
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