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SIOUX FALLS

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 151 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIOUX FALLS , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of Minnehaha county, See also:South Dakota, U. S. A., on the Big Sioux See also:river, about 12 m. N.W. of the N.W. corner of See also:Iowa. Pop. (1890), 10,177; (1900) 10,266, of whom 1858 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1905), 12,283; (1910), 14,094. It is the largest city in the See also:state. Sioux Falls is served by the See also:Chicago, See also:Milwaukee & St See also:Paul, the Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific, the See also:Great See also:Northern, the See also:Illinois Central, the Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis & See also:Omaha (See also:North-Western lines), and the South Dakota Central See also:railways. In the city are the State See also:Penitentiary, the State See also:Children's See also:Home, the South Dakota School for See also:Deaf Mutes, a See also:United States See also:Government See also:Building, the County See also:Court See also:House, Sioux Falls See also:College (Baptist; used as a container for aerated See also:waters a See also:tube passes through the See also:neck of the See also:vessel, one end terminating in a curved spout while the other reaches to the bottom of the interior. On this tube is a See also:spring See also:valve which is opened by pressing a See also:lever. The vessel is filled through the spout, and the See also:water is driven out by the pressure of the See also:gas it contains, when the valve is opened. The " Regency portable See also:fountain, " patented in 1825 by See also:Charles See also:Plinth, was the prototype of the See also:modern See also:siphon, from which it differed in having a stopcock in See also:place of a spring valve.

The " siphon champenois " of Deleuze and Dutillet (1829) was a hollow corkscrew, with valve, which was passed through the See also:

cork into a See also:bottle of effervescent liquid, and the " See also:vase siphoide " of See also:Antoine Perpigna (Savaresse pere), patented in 1837, was essentially the modern siphon, its See also:head being fitted with a valve which was closed by a spring.

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