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| Title | The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volume 7 Volume 7 of The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences ... Commerce, Etc., of the World, Frederick Converse Beach The Encyclopedia Americana: A Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Frederick Converse Beach |
| Editors | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines |
| Contributor | Scientific American, inc |
| Publisher | Scientific American Compiling Department, 1905 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 29 Aug 2007 |
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