Word: copperizing
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...first business telephone line erected was that between New York and Philadelphia. The lines were gradually made longer and longer until the present line between New York and Chicago, was completed. This line is 950 miles long, has 44,247 poles, and contains 826,800 lbs. of copper...
...perfect control is obtained. Mr. Burton has also discovered that when several metals are heated by the same currents, the softer are not fused more quickly than the harder; in other words, each metal calls for its appropriate amount of the current. Thus he is enabled to heat iron, copper, and brass all by one current...
There is a story by Francois Copper entitled "The Rivals" and one by M.E. M. Davis called "Mr. Benjamin Franklin Gisk's Ball." Laurence Hutton contributes a third paper on "A Collection' of Death-Masks" and another of James Russell Lowell's essays on "Old English Dramatists" is painted...
...digging on the new athletic grounds at Rutgers, evidences of a copper mine known to have been worked a hundred years ago, were found, also a number of Indian relics and a marble slab with Hebraic characters inscribed upon...
...trophies which Miss Fletcher got among the Indians, and which have already been mentioned. Various other articles of archaeological and ethnological interest have been given to the museum, among the most valuable of which are implements and masks from the Pacific islands, specimens of Peruvian pottery, various copper instruments found by a sailor in Mexico, some of the forms of which have never before been found. The copper instruments will give some clew, till now undiscovered, to the particular way that the ancients of Mexico and Central America cut stone...