. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. the telegraph, patents and sixty-MOven caveats—all taken out irieight years. Since then the phonograph, the telephone, the elec-tric pe
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. the telegraph, patents and sixty-MOven caveats—all taken out irieight years. Since then the phonograph, the telephone, the elec-tric pen and other inventions have rapidly come from bin hand. Having for the lime exhauHl-ed the field for the uncHof electricity in transmittingcharacters and tiound, he hasturned his attention to thisagent as a meanc of furnish-ing physical power andillumination. A late c<mtriv-ance of his design is alocomotive propelled by elec-tric power, upon a circularrailway. In the vicinity ofhis home. Another device, of verygreat importance, from thehand of this inventive geniusis that by which the remain-ing gold and silver in refuseore may be extracted. Forthe purpose of carrying thisscheme into effect a com-pany has been formed, whoseagents visit the gold andsilver mining camps of thecountry and arrange withthe owners of mines to taketh(! ore which has beenalready once worked, knownas tailings, and by thisnew process gather theprecious metal which it h
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