Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 66
of experiment, namely, end-less chains with paddle-boards upon them, andthe paddle-wheel. The latter was found to bethe most promising, and was finally adoptedafter a number of trials with models on a littleriver which runs through the village of Plom- o o bieres, to which he had retired in the… … Fultons First Experiment with Paddle-wheels. tal boat, which was completed in the spring of1803 ; but when Fulton was on the point of mak-ing an experiment with her, an accident hap-pened to the boat, the woodwork not having been framed strongly enough to bear the weightof the machinery and the…
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