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Title: Ohio, the future great state, her manufacturers, and a history of her commercial cities, Cincinnati and Cleveland
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Comley, William J D'Eggville, W
Subjects: Manufactures -- Ohio Cincinnati (Ohio) -- Description and travel Cleveland (Ohio) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Cincinnati, Comley bros.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to remedythis defect in the application of turbine water-wheels, none has, before the invention ofthe American turbine, patented by themselves, practically succeeded in producing aturbine water-wheel that would produce as high a percentage with partial or with fullgates. Many thousands of dollars have been expended in endeavoring to accomplishthis much-desired result; and it has been said by many scientific and practical men ofacknowledged ability that it never could be attained. The American turbine has demon-strated, beyond the possibility of successful contradiction, that this has been accomplishedto the entire satisfaction of hundreds wht) have had many years experience in the use ofwater as a motive power. The works of this company are on a mammoth scale, rfnd are furnished with themost improved machinery and appliances for the manufacture of every thing in theirline. Large illustrated catalogue sent free on application to Stout, Mills & Temple,Dayton, Ohio. 403 y-k 5 : j iM
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P. P. MAST & CO., SPRINGFIELD, O. The above company, who are engaged in the manufacture of grain drills, broadcastseeders, cultivators, cider-mills, plow sulkies, hay-rakes, Anderson steamers, etc., wasincorporated in December, 1871, under the State laws of Ohio, with a capital of $500,-000, though the history of the organization dates back as far as 1856, when the busi-ness was started by Thomas & Mast; and out of this firm, who started the business with$15,000, grew the present company. Few companies, conducting a business of as largeproportions as this, make less display in its transactions, or move so quietly forward.The gentlemen at the head of it are progressive and enterprising. They did not con-sider the achievements of one year a criterion for the future, but looked upon it as anencouragement to try for greater results. They have also shown the same enterprise forimproving the \vorking and usefulness of the goods they make, and to this peculiarity oftheir management i

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