A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 263
oposed, and that Rumseys steam-boat was not made until 1786. The boiler adopted in Fitchs boat of 1787 was a pipe-boiler, which he had described in a communication to thePhilosophical Society, in September, 1785. It consisted(Fig. 68) of a small water-pipe, winding backward and for-ward in the…
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