The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 417
uld put about twice as quickas a galley by ordinary navigation, and that she made atleast a league an hour. * An expedition taken soon after prevented the follow-ing up of the invention, and it was no more heard from.Mr. Marsh endorses the responsibility of the authorityof the one from whom he… … CHAPTEE XXIII. STEAM AND ITS APPLICATIONS.—Continued. SOME authors reckon the Marquis of Worcester asabout the last of the inventors who dealt withsteam in what they term the period of speculation, andthat the period which followed him was that of applica-tion. This is not just to the author of a…
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