Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York : Henry Holt and company · leaf 76
from their first trip, earned a good dividend, so punc-tual was their carriage of passengers and freight. Why was it left to Fulton, and so recently as 1807, toaccomplish a feat so simple? Because civilized nations hadnot fully awakened to what the steam engine stood readyto do for them. Watt, in… … iiliiiiiilll
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