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Men of Invention and Industry

CHAPTER III
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It occupied a space of only about half the size of the first.

He introduced several improvements.

He lessened the number of the wheels, and thereby diminished friction.

But the general arrangement remained the same.
This second machine was finished in 1739.

It was more simple in its arrangement, and less cumbrous in its dimensions.


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