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 454
roved mill for the sawing ofmarble, another for spinning flax, making ropes, andexcavating the channels of canals. During this period,he made the acquaintance of Watt, who had just madehis great improvements in the steam-engine, and withwhich it is certain, Fulton made himself familiar. While in… … ROBERT FULTON. (449) Fultons toepedo vessel. 451 state of perfection which has not since been attained^if we may judge of its character from a report made tothe French government: On the 3d of July, 1801, he embarked with threecompanions on board his plunging boat in the harbor ofBrest, and…
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