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Southland Times, Issue 1572, 3 May 1872, Page 3

Mechanical. — A. very remarkable mechanical discovery bas been made by Mr Tilghman, of Philadelphia. He has discovered that a' strong jet of air, steam, or water, mixed with some such material as sand, can drill a hole or eat away the face of any substance, no matter how hard, in an amazingly short space of time. With sand and a steam jet of 3001bs pressure to the square inch, he made a hole in a bloclc of corrundum — a material as hard as diamond — -an inch and a-haif deep ia less than twenty-five minutes, tn like manner by covering glass with perforated paper or some gemielastic substance, be has been able to work out the most delicate and intricate patterns, sand and compressed air being employed. The discovery bids fair to create a revolution in the mechanical world.

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