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Page 90, Van Dieman, Troostwyck: Jan Rudolph Deiman and Adriaan Paets van Troostwijk. Changes made to the text:
Obvious punctuation and typographical errors have been corrected silently.
Some footnotes, tables and illustrations have been moved; some tables have been re-arranged. Other changes:
Page 23: any surfaces changed to any surface
Page 26: opening or shuting changed to opening or shutting
Page 47: A New changed to A new
Page 48: trafic changed to traffic; footnote [10]: corporated changed to incorporated (cf. errata)
Page 53: This combustion changed to The combustion (cf. errata)
Page 64: Cleg changed to Clegg (cf. errata); footnote anchor [14] moved from next page (cf. errata, footnote anchor *); communicates changed to communicated (cf. errata)
Page 67: 1250 + 2 = 2500 changed to 1250 × 2 = 2500
Page 69: Mr. Lee changed to “Mr. Lee for consistency
Page 72: closing quote mark added to letter
Page 96: pure coal- changed to pure coal-gas
Page 102: sub acetate changed to sub-acetate
Page 118: ball 6 changed to ball b
Page 119: e, are changed to e e, are
Page 125: 180 degree changed to 180 degrees (cf. errata); footnote [28]: may he compleatly changed to may be compleatly
Page 131: and make changed to and makes
Page 132: coal changed to coal-tar (cf. errata)
Page 158: Nortou Falgate changed to Norton Falgate; a about changed to about
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