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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 464

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; in May of the same year, shecrossed the ocean, reaching Liverpool in twenty-twodays. In 1838, two English vessels, the Sirius andthe Great Western, crossed from Bristol to NewYork, in nineteen and eighteen days respectively. Thescrew for the propulsion of vessels was first broughtinto notice by… … STEAM-SHIP -HAMMONIA. (459) 460 STEAM AND THE STEAM-BOAT. placed in two vessels wMch he built for citizens of theUnited States; and thereafter, to a very large extent,the screw-propeller supplanted the paddle-wheel inocean-going vessels. At the present time, the total number of steamers inuse in…

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