He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of …

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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. ✨ Gulliver's Travels A Voyage to Laputa, etc. ch. 5 (1726)
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. ✨ Gulliver's Travels A Voyage to Laputa, etc. ch. 5 (1726)

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