A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 297
tree-nails, and diagonal knees of wood andof iron. Two years later he altered the engines of this boat,and arranged them to work steam expansively. A littlelater he commenced using anthracite coal, which had beendiscovered in 1791 by Philip Ginter, and introduced atWilkesbarre, Pa., in the… … Fig. 87.—The Feathering Paddle-Wheel. about the same time it had been .used in the blast-furnace ^at Kingston. Stevens was the first of whom we have rec-ord who was thoroughly successful in using, as a steam-coal,the new and almost unmanageable fuel. He fitted up the Bighop. STEAM-NAVIGATION. 273…
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