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Water Elevator.
Patent for a new and improved water elevator. This design "relates to improvements in water-elevators in which water is made to perform the operations heretofore performed by steam; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts . . . whereby the rarefaction of heated air is employed to raise or set in motion a continuous stream of water" (lines 14-21).
Date:
January 25, 1881
Creator:
Smith, William A. & Smith, Robert T.
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The Portal to Texas History