The Technical World Magazine, Volume 20Technical World Company, 1913 |
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Page 20
... miles from the gaping mouths of the Amazon , a line of narrow gauge railway creeps up into the heart of the Acré rubber country , into the land of the mythical " White Indians " , where the feather- mustached Caripunas hunt in the ...
... miles from the gaping mouths of the Amazon , a line of narrow gauge railway creeps up into the heart of the Acré rubber country , into the land of the mythical " White Indians " , where the feather- mustached Caripunas hunt in the ...
Page 21
... miles in fifty days . Rapid succeeded rapid . The party went upstream in " batalãos " , clumsy , tub - like craft built for dragging over rocky portages . They would be favored with a few miles of fair water and then would encounter a ...
... miles in fifty days . Rapid succeeded rapid . The party went upstream in " batalãos " , clumsy , tub - like craft built for dragging over rocky portages . They would be favored with a few miles of fair water and then would encounter a ...
Page 23
... miles up the Madeira . Five years ago it was a palm - thatched village . Now it is a town of several thousand . The railroad construc- tion men literally cut the jungle away to build this metropolis of the tropics . The ocean - going ...
... miles up the Madeira . Five years ago it was a palm - thatched village . Now it is a town of several thousand . The railroad construc- tion men literally cut the jungle away to build this metropolis of the tropics . The ocean - going ...
Page 68
... miles an hour the flyer struck a horse and threw it against a switch stand , thus turning stand , thus turning the switch and wrecking the train . Four coaches were converted intc kindling wood , and forty - eight people were injured ...
... miles an hour the flyer struck a horse and threw it against a switch stand , thus turning stand , thus turning the switch and wrecking the train . Four coaches were converted intc kindling wood , and forty - eight people were injured ...
Page 69
... miles , but , even so , the misery that can be crowded into that comparatively brief trip fairly beggars description at times . A submarine tunnel from Eng- land to France would completely alter all these conditions . This idea in ...
... miles , but , even so , the misery that can be crowded into that comparatively brief trip fairly beggars description at times . A submarine tunnel from Eng- land to France would completely alter all these conditions . This idea in ...
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