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 460
nt was madeto Albany. She had the most terrific appearance, from othervessels which were navigating the river, when she wasmaking her passage. The first steam-boats used drypine for fuel, which sends forth a column of ignitedvapor many feet above the flue, and whenever the fireis stirred, a galaxy… … 456 STEAM AND THE STEAM-BOAT. were adverse to its approach, they saw with astonish-ment that it was coming rapidly towards them; andwhen it came so near that the noise of the machineryand paddles was heard, the crews (if what was said atthe time in the newspapers be true) in some instancesshrunk…
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