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John Ericsson, the Glossary

John Ericsson (born Johan Ericsson; July 31, 1803 – March 8, 1889) was a Swedish-American engineer and inventor.^[1]

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19th-century Swedish inventors
American marine engineers
Burials at New York City Marble Cemetery
History of firefighting
People from Filipstad Municipality
Swedish agnostics
Swedish mechanical engineers
Swedish military officers
Swedish people of the American Civil War
Swedish shipbuilders

A. H. Bull Steamship Company

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Abel P. Upshur

Abel Parker Upshur (June 17, 1790 – February 28, 1844) was an American lawyer, planter, judge, and politician from the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

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The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.

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Alternate history

Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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American Swedish Historical Museum

The American Swedish Historical Museum is the oldest Swedish-American museum in the United States.

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Argyll Rooms

The Argyll Rooms (sometimes spelled Argyle) was an entertainment venue on Little Argyll Street, Regent Street, London, England, opened in 1806.

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Baltzar von Platen (1766–1829)

Count Baltzar Bogislaus von Platen (29 May 1766 – 6 December 1829) was a Swedish naval officer and statesman.

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Battle of Hampton Roads

The Battle of Hampton Roads, also referred to as the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (rebuilt and renamed as the CSS Virginia) or the Battle of Ironclads, was a naval battle during the American Civil War.

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Battleship

A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of large-caliber guns, designed to serve as capital ships with the most intense firepower.

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Bellows

A bellows or pair of bellows is a device constructed to furnish a strong blast of air.

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Birch

A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.

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Breechloader

A breechloader is a firearm in which the user loads the ammunition from the breech end of the barrel (i.e., from the rearward, open end of the gun's barrel), as opposed to a muzzleloader, in which the user loads the ammunition from the (muzzle) end of the barrel.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Caloric theory

The caloric theory is an obsolete scientific theory that heat consists of a self-repellent fluid called caloric that flows from hotter bodies to colder bodies.

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Chesapeake Bay

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States.

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Confederate States Navy

The Confederate States Navy (CSN) was the naval branch of the Confederate States Armed Forces, established by an act of the Confederate States Congress on February 21, 1861.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.

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Cornelius H. DeLamater

Cornelius Henry DeLamater (August 30, 1821 – February 2, 1889) was an industrialist who owned DeLamater Iron Works in New York City.

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Cornelius Scranton Bushnell

Cornelius Scranton Bushnell (July 19, 1829 – May 6, 1896) was an American railroad executive and shipbuilder who was instrumental in developing ironclad ships for the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

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Destroyer

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats.

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Dome

A dome is an architectural element similar to the hollow upper half of a sphere.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.

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Ericsson cycle

The Ericsson cycle is named after inventor John Ericsson who designed and built many unique heat engines based on various thermodynamic cycles.

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Ericsson, Minneapolis

Ericsson is a neighborhood within the Nokomis community in Minneapolis.

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Experiment (horse-powered boat)

Experiment was an early 19th-century boat powered by horses and incorporating the idea of a screw propeller, which was a new idea at the time.

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Fairmount Park

Fairmount Park is the largest municipal park in Philadelphia and the historic name for a group of parks located throughout the city.

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Filipstad

Filipstad is a locality and the seat of Filipstad Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden, with 10,644 inhabitants in 2019.

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Filipstad Municipality

Filipstad Municipality (Filipstads kommun) is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden.

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Forsvik

Forsvik is a locality situated in Karlsborg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden.

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Frigate

A frigate is a type of warship.

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Göta Canal

The Göta Canal (Göta kanal) is a Swedish canal constructed in the early 19th century.

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George Stephenson

George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer during the Industrial Revolution.

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Gideon Welles

Gideon Welles (July 1, 1802 – February 11, 1878), nicknamed "Father Neptune", was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, a cabinet post he was awarded after supporting Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election.

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Gothenburg

Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the capital of Västra Götaland County in Sweden.

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Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.

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Gun turret

A gun turret (or simply turret) is a mounting platform from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility and ability to turn and aim.

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Hampton Roads

Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water in the United States that serves as a wide channel for the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's Point near where the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean, and the surrounding metropolitan region located in the southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina portions of the Tidewater Region.

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Harry Harrison (writer)

Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction author, known mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966).

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Heat engine

A heat engine is a system that converts heat to usable energy, particularly mechanical energy, which can then be used to do mechanical work.

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Hoop gun

A hoop gun is a gun production technique that uses multiple layers of tubes to form a built-up gun.

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Hot air engine

A hot air engine (historically called an air engine or caloric engine) is any heat engine that uses the expansion and contraction of air under the influence of a temperature change to convert thermal energy into mechanical work.

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Independence (steamboat)

The Independence was a propeller-driven steamboat that was the first steam-driven vessel to run on Lake Superior in October 1845, initiating the era of steam navigation on that lake.

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Ironclad warship

An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s.

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James River

The James River is a river in Virginia that begins in the Appalachian Mountains and flows from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson Rivers in Botetourt County U.S. Geological Survey.

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Jämtland

Jämtland (Jamtish: Jamtlann; Iemptia) is a historical province (landskap) in the centre of Sweden in northern Europe.

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Jämtland Ranger Corps

The Jämtland Ranger Corps (Jämtlands fältjägarkår, JFK), is a Swedish Army infantry unit that operated in various forms during the years 1670–1983, 1990–1997, 2000–2005 and 2021–present.

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John Braithwaite (engineer)

John Braithwaite, the younger (19 March 1797 – 25 September 1870), was an English engineer who invented the first steam fire engine. John Ericsson and John Braithwaite (engineer) are history of firefighting.

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John Ericsson Memorial

John Ericsson Memorial, located near the National Mall at Ohio Drive and Independence Avenue, SW, in Washington, D.C., is dedicated to the man who revolutionized naval history with his invention of the screw propeller.

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John Philip Holland

John Philip Holland (Seán Pilib Ó hUallacháin/Ó Maolchalann) (February 24, 1841August 12, 1914) was an Irish-American engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, Holland 1. John Ericsson and John Philip Holland are 19th-century American inventors and American naval architects.

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John Ross (Royal Navy officer)

Sir John Ross (24 June 1777 – 30 August 1856) was a Scottish Royal Navy officer and polar explorer.

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John Tyler

John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the tenth president of the United States from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841.

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Kungsportsavenyen

Avenyn (The Avenue; formally Kungsportsavenyen, (en. "Kingsgate Avenue")) is the main boulevard of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Långban

Långban is a mining area in Värmland in Sweden.

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Liverpool and Manchester Railway

The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) was the first inter-city railway in the world.

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Lund

Lund ((US) and) is a city in the southern Swedish province of Scania, across the Öresund strait from Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Lund University

Lund University (Lunds universitet) is a public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.

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Monitor (warship)

A monitor is a relatively small warship that is neither fast nor strongly armored but carries disproportionately large guns.

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Napoleon III

Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as the second Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.

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National Mall

The National Mall is a landscaped park near the downtown area of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nils Ericson

Friherre Nils Ericson (31 January 1802 – 8 September 1870) was a Swedish mechanical engineer (as was his younger brother John Ericsson, who emigrated first to England and then the USA). John Ericsson and Nils Ericson are 19th-century Swedish inventors and People from Filipstad Municipality.

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Novelty (locomotive)

Novelty was an early steam locomotive built by John Ericsson and John Braithwaite to take part in the Rainhill Trials in 1829.

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Nybroplan

Nybroplan (Swedish for "New Bridge square") is a public space in central Stockholm, Sweden.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Prince Regent Inlet

Prince Regent Inlet is a body of water in Nunavut, Canada between the west end of Baffin Island (Brodeur Peninsula) and Somerset Island on the west.

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Propeller

A propeller (colloquially often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linear thrust upon a working fluid such as water or air.

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Rail transport

Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails.

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Rainhill trials

The Rainhill trials was an important competition run from the 6 to 14 October 1829, to test George Stephenson's argument that locomotives would have the best motive power for the then nearly-completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR).

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Regenerative heat exchanger

A regenerative heat exchanger, or more commonly a regenerator, is a type of heat exchanger where heat from the hot fluid is intermittently stored in a thermal storage medium before it is transferred to the cold fluid.

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Robert F. Stockton

Robert Field Stockton (August 20, 1795 – October 7, 1866) was a United States Navy commodore, notable in the capture of California during the Mexican–American War.

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Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson, (Hon. causa) (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. John Ericsson and Robert Stephenson are 1803 births.

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Robert Stirling

Robert Stirling (25 October 1790 – 6 June 1878) was a Scottish clergyman and engineer.

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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the royal academies of Sweden.

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Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences

The Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademien) is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden and was founded on 12 November 1796 by Gustaf Wilhelm af Tibell.

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Rumford Prize

Founded in 1796, the Rumford Prize, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is one of the oldest scientific prizes in the United States.

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Sloop-of-war

During the 18th and 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship of the British Royal Navy with a single gun deck that carried up to 18 guns.

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Solar thermal collector

A solar thermal collector collects heat by absorbing sunlight.

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Stars and Stripes trilogy

The Stars and Stripes trilogy is a collection of three alternate history novels written by Harry Harrison.

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Statue of John Ericsson

John Ericsson is a Heroic-Scale bronze statue depicting John Ericsson, and is located in Battery Park in New York City.

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Steam

Steam is a substance containing water in the gas phase, often mixed with air and/or an aerosol of liquid water droplets.

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Stephenson's Rocket

Stephenson's Rocket is an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Surface condenser

A surface condenser is a water-cooled shell and tube heat exchanger installed to condense exhaust steam from a steam turbine in thermal power stations.

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Surveying

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Swedish Army

The Swedish Army (Svenska Armén) is the land force of the Swedish Armed Forces.

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Swedish Navy

The Swedish Navy (Svenska marinen) is the maritime service branch of the Swedish Armed Forces.

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The Battery (Manhattan)

The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Thermodynamic cycle

A thermodynamic cycle consists of linked sequences of thermodynamic processes that involve transfer of heat and work into and out of the system, while varying pressure, temperature, and other state variables within the system, and that eventually returns the system to its initial state.

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