True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 106
GREAT BATTLE SHIP KEARSARGE* LARGEST IN THE NAVV^ - , J THE TRUE STORY OF Robert Fulton, The Builder of the hr»t sue*cessful Steamboat. bFlTCHS STEAMBOAT jAN BETWEEN PHILADELPHIA AND 8URLINGT0N,N.J. 17SS … D O any of my young read-ers think, when they goto take a boat-ride andare carried along, al-most as fast as a bird would flyover the waters, in the great fast-moving steamboats, that it is notyet one hundred years since thefirst successful steamboat wasfloated on the water? Would IV I,. I.iyi lM1…
