A sketch of the origin and progress of steam navigation from authentic documents (1848)
Woodcroft, Bennet, 1803-1879 · London : Taylor, Walton, and Maberly · leaf 68
of this important experiment, whichbids fair to introduce an improvement, which by greatly facilitating,and rendering more easy, the intercourse by means of navigation,must not only be highly advantageous to our own country in parti-cular, but to the world at large, and to mankind in general. The… … STEAM NAVIGATION. 39 I shall proceed to account for the interval that took place from 1789.the time of Mr. Millers experiments, till the invention came heforethe puhlic. Mr. Millers pause separated him and me; and having beenmuch pressed and solicited by a noble family, whilst these experi-ments…
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