Word: fulcrums
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...their place a new style, greatly superior, substituted. This new rowing apparatus will be, as far as the kind of work goes, the same as that in the boat. What is to all intents and purposes an oar will be used, and this, at the end near the fulcrum, is attached to a piston. When the power is exerted, the piston is made to force water into a narrow cylinder, and thus is afforded resistance. The oarsmen, on these new weights, can practise a natural feather and recover, which heretofore they could not do. The seats are to be placed...