Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics : together with a collection of anecdotes ... relating to the mechanic arts : illustrated by fifty engravings (1852)
Howe, Henry, 1816-1893, New York Museum of Science and Industry. Library · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 38
d by the strokes of a paddle of a canoe. As six of the paddles areraised from the water, six more are entered, and the two sets of paddles maketheir strokes of about eleven feet in each evolution. The crank of the axis actsupon the paddles, about one. third of their length from their lower ends,… … JOHN FITCH. 33 and a half; on which the shares were signed over with grea*.satisfaction by the rest of the company. It afterwards went eightymiles in a day ! The governor and council of Pennsylvania were so highlygratified with our labors, that without their intentions being pre-viously known to…
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