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Should be tried with somebody's money besides his own. It is gratifying to learn from Mr. Bird, himself, that he he has had experience in the matter of compressed air as a motive power, and that a " cussed furriner, " as he elegantly phrases it is not to be allowed to bear off the pahn of this great discovery uncontested. Doubtless M. Sommeiller will yield to the su- perior science and sagacity of Mr. Bird ; but our countryman should lose no time in informing his fellow citizens of his in- vest...igations, experiments and success in arriving at the conclusion that compressed air cannot " be carried through five miles of pipe without a very serious loss of power through friction, leakage, &c. " But, unfortunately for this view of the case, there are data establishing the fact that compressed air has been conveyed through more than two miles of pipe at Mt. Cenis, and then operated the drills without any appreci- able loss of power. If there is no loss in two miles, how can there be in five ?
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