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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 446

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Franklin Bache. FITCH S STEAM-BOAT. 441 to the point mentioned, there can be no doubt; the tes-timony as to the experiment of the Delaware is abundantand incontrovertible. While an effort was being made to raise more moneyin order to enlarge the cylinder, there sprang up a furi-ous controversy… … JOHN FITCHS STEAM-BOAT. (1788.) are that Eumsey was the first to think of a boat to moveagainst the current, and that for this purpose he em-ployed the crank and setting-poles, and that he did notcontemplate steam as the power, until after the idea hadoccurred to Fitch and been by him made pubhc.…

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