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... steam - engine enliven the shores of the Ohio ......... Patrick Miller and William Symington's inventions 152 153 CHAPTER IX . STEAM NAVIGATION , AND FULTON'S SUCCESS . Mr. Fulton gave to Watt and Bolton , of England , instructions for ...
... steam - engine enliven the shores of the Ohio ......... Patrick Miller and William Symington's inventions 152 153 CHAPTER IX . STEAM NAVIGATION , AND FULTON'S SUCCESS . Mr. Fulton gave to Watt and Bolton , of England , instructions for ...
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... steam navigation be- cause his canal - boat was seen floating one day on a ... steam navigation , submarine navigation , and inland navigation ; and ... engine of war like the Nautilus , that , with its sails , INTRODUCTION . XV.
... steam navigation be- cause his canal - boat was seen floating one day on a ... steam navigation , submarine navigation , and inland navigation ; and ... engine of war like the Nautilus , that , with its sails , INTRODUCTION . XV.
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... steam navigation , or Mr. Watt's credit as an engine - builder , but for the injustice done to Mr. Fulton by " this unjust British Cyclopędia of Arts . " In 1765 , Mr. James Watt , of England , improved the steam - engine , ( first in ...
... steam navigation , or Mr. Watt's credit as an engine - builder , but for the injustice done to Mr. Fulton by " this unjust British Cyclopędia of Arts . " In 1765 , Mr. James Watt , of England , improved the steam - engine , ( first in ...
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... STEAM PACKET that was ever built , or sailed against wind and tide , which was called the " CLERMONT . " 19. The first submarine plunging - boat , as a terrible engine of war , constructed for carrying torpedoes and 60 THE LIFE OF ...
... STEAM PACKET that was ever built , or sailed against wind and tide , which was called the " CLERMONT . " 19. The first submarine plunging - boat , as a terrible engine of war , constructed for carrying torpedoes and 60 THE LIFE OF ...
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... STEAM - ENGINE OF WATT , and harnessing it , like a snorting steed , to his leviathan car , he lashed its foaming sides , and giving it liberty , it " Rode the waters like a thing of life , " and startled old Neptune from the lowest ...
... STEAM - ENGINE OF WATT , and harnessing it , like a snorting steed , to his leviathan car , he lashed its foaming sides , and giving it liberty , it " Rode the waters like a thing of life , " and startled old Neptune from the lowest ...
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