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 462
ne battery, for which heobtained a patent in 1813. On the 24th of February,1815, he died from the effects of a cold caught a shorttime before, while he had been over to New Jersey as awitness before the legislature to secure a repeal of a lawwhich had forbidden a ferry-boat to ply between NewYork… … 458 STEAM AND THE STEAM-BOAT. benefit of navigation by steam, there need be no ques-tion. He invented but little; but he was the first toapply principles already established, and give them apractical and lasting effect. He did not invent thesteam-boat, but he gave it existence. The first steam-boat…
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