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88. PARSEY, WILLIAM, 455 Oxford Street — Inventor.
Working model of a bell-buoy for warning vessels of danger. 'Motion is obtained by the action of the surface current or tide on a water-wheel, placed between two floats or barges, which is communicated to the hammer for striking the bell and giving the alarum.
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