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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 524

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lution of ocean navigation. John Ericsson, whosubsequently built the famous Monitor, had demonstrated the practicabilityof the screw as a propeller in 1836, and, three years later, the Archimedes, oftwo hundred and thirty-seven tons, was fitted with a screw. It was the suc-cess of the Archimedes… … THE CLEUMONT. FULTONS FIT!ST STEAMBOAT. adoption of iron as a material and of the screw for a propeller came aboutslowly. Indeed, iron ship-building made little progress in Great Britain be-fore 1850, and in this country wood was adhered to till much later. Onereason why the English did not change…

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