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around their new plant where small [[red underline]] electric generator units are made driven by one cylinder 2 HP kerosene [[/red underline]] motor and equipped with storage batteries for farm use.  Tremendous activity expect to sell 50000 plants in 1917. [[red underline]] Very impressive [[/red underline]] all this -- Test rooms, laboratories, research work etc. From the way he has succeeded in making this kerosene motor run I have no doubt that before long, [[red underline]] gasoline for motors will be replaced by kerosene. [[/red underline]] Until now the mistake has been in imagining that a [[red underline]] kerosene carburetor [[/red underline]] was the main problem while in reality the [[red underline]] whole motor has to be constructed specially. [[/red underline]]
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Drove me to the enormous new plant they are building in the country near his house, then [[red underline]] to his house, [[/red underline]] an imposing building upon the hill. Lower story rocks, upper part [[red underline]] Tudor style [[/red underline]] and heavy oak. Rooms inside paneled oak. Has an [[red underline]] Aeolian [[red underline]] mechanical organ the organ itself [[strikethrough]] placed [[/strikethrough]] ^[[hidden]] in the attick, the sound being sent thru perforated ceiling which produces very soft effect. Has also an [[red underline]] immense greenhouse [[/red underline]] with a little clinical laboratory near it. In greenhouse cultivates [[red underline]] big cucumbers. [[/red underline]]
Evening [[red underline]] banquet offered to me 
Deeds [[/red underline]] telegraphs he is detained in New York, [[red underline]] but Orville Wright at my side. Again a very interesting conversation. [[/red underline]] Tells me he is about to publish his earlier [[/red underline]] experiments [[/red underline]] connected with flying