Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters (1856)
Lloyd, James T. [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, Ohio, J. T. Lloyd & co.; Chicago, Ill., D. B. Cooke & co. · leaf 26
paddle of a canoe. As six of the paddlesare raised from the water, six more are entered, and the two sets ofpaddles make their strokes of about eleven feet in each revolution.The crank of the axis acts upon the paddles about one-third of theirlength from the lower ends, to which part of the oar the… … fitchs PHILADELPHIA BOA T—1 7 8 6 This description was written by the inventor himself, and was firstpublished in the Philadelphia Columbian Magazine, vol. 1, for Decem-ber, 1786. Fitchs boat was tried, as previously stated, on the Delaware river, infront of Philadelphia. The boat was ordered under…
