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“A STUDY of the Primitive Methods of Drilling” is the title “of a monograph by Mr. J. D. McGuire, in the recently-published Report of the United States National Museum (1894). The paper covers 125 pages of the Report, and is fully illustrated, in addition to which there are numerous references to books of travel among peoples living under the most primitive conditions. The author of the paper verified his opinions during the progress of the work by experiments in a laboratory fitted up for the purpose in the United States National Museum.
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Primitive Methods of Drilling. Nature 56, 140–141 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056140a0
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