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 465
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… … CHAPTEE XXY. STEAM AND THE LOCOMOTIVE. IT has been seen in an examination of the developmentof the steam-boat, that there is no one person whocan be credited with its invention; in the course of theinvestigation of the growth of the locomotive and thesteam-carriage, it will be found that to no one…
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