Moulins Ball
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moulins-ball-312-3182278
title:
Moulins Ball
text:
A Boule de Moulins was a method of transporting mail from the provinces to the city of Paris, used during the siege of the 1870 war. As the mail to be transported in this way in hollow spheres is first centralized in Moulins (Allier), these balls are called "de Moulins". Three people came up with the idea of placing the mail in watertight zinc cylinders, given a spherical shape by means of fins, which were immersed in the Seine well upstream of Paris, not far from Montereau-Fault-Yonne. Rolling
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Failed method of sending mail into Paris
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulins_Ball
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date modified:
2024-01-21T23:15:52Z
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{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Boule_de_Moulin_2017.jpg","width":3648,"height":3515}
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