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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 523

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ons, was able to makethe trip from Quebec to Graves-end on the Thames only bystopping for coal at Pictou,Nova Scotia, and Cowes nearPortsmouth, England. The first steamships to crossthe ocean without recoalingwere the Sirius and Great West-ern, which arrived in New Yorkthe same day, April 23,… … ROBERT FULTON. hundred tons, created a great impression.Enquirer said, in its issue of April 24, 1838 : — What may be the ultimate fate of this excitement — whether or not theexpense of equipment and fuel will admit of the employment of these ves-sels in the ordinary, packet service — we cannot…

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