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The suggestion of the Star came like a revelation. It was accepted / everywhere. Not only were these three vehicles the work of the same / inventor; they were the same machine!
It was not easy to see how the remarkable transformation could be / practically accomplished from one means of locomotion to the other. How / could an automobile become a boat, and yet more, a submarine? All the / machine seemed to lack was the power of flying through the air. / Nevertheless, everything that was known of the three different / machines, as to their size, their shape, their lack of odor or of / steam, and above all their remarkable speed, seemed to imply their / identity. The public, grown blase with so many excitements, found in / this new marvel a stimulus to reawaken their curiosity.