Eminent engineers; brief biographies of thirty-two of the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress (1906)
Goddard, Dwight, 1861-1939 · New York, The Derry-Collard company · leaf 30
r man than he to gatherup the results of his experiments and those of Syming-ton, Cartwright, Stevens, and others, and by the power ofa greater engineering ability, to correctly design and pro-portion the steamboat that was to survive. For this Ful-ton should have credit. There is something… … Nathan Read1759-1849 From an engraving, the plate for which was made by St. Memin, Phila., igoi 28 Nathan Read. T T T The name of Judge Nathan Read ought not to beomitted from the list of early Americans who made con-tribution to the beginning of steam locomotion a^d steamnavigation. Read was a…
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