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 538
came in the days of wooden vessels. It began in early colo-nial times and lasted until the middle of this century, when the world beganto buy iron ships of the United Kingdom. The magnitude of our shipbuild-ing industry at the middle of the nineteenth century is indicated by the factthat during the… … 510 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX™ CENTURY The decline in American shipbuilding set in sharply after the Civil War,and, in spite of the continued growth of our domestic marine, the tonnageconstructed by American builders steadily declined until 1886, when only95,453 tons were built. The causes of…
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