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Title: The book of wonders

gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer...

Editor: Rudolph J. Bodmer

Release date: April 24, 2025 [eBook #75948]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: Presbrey Syndicate, Inc., 1914

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THE
BOOK OF WONDERS

HOW MAN BURROWS UNDER THE WATER

This is a picture of a section of one of the world’s greatest tunnels, showing how man has learned to construct great tubes of steel beneath the surface of the water and land, in which to run the swiftly moving trains which carry him rapidly from place to place.