Excerpt from Account of Some Early Proposals for Steam Navigation Jonathan hulls, in 1736, took out a patent for carrying vessels and ships out of and into any harbour, port, or river, against wind and tide, or in a calm. In the following year he published a description of his method, which consisted in towing thembyasteamboat. Thecopiesoftheori ginaleditionofthistractareveryscarce;bntit was reprinted at the end of Mr. Partington's Lec tures on the Steam Engine and well de served to be recalled to pnblicnotice. Thedraw ...
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Excerpt from Account of Some Early Proposals for Steam Navigation Jonathan hulls, in 1736, took out a patent for carrying vessels and ships out of and into any harbour, port, or river, against wind and tide, or in a calm. In the following year he published a description of his method, which consisted in towing thembyasteamboat. Thecopiesoftheori ginaleditionofthistractareveryscarce;bntit was reprinted at the end of Mr. Partington's Lec tures on the Steam Engine and well de served to be recalled to pnblicnotice. Thedraw boat was to be furnished with a pair ofwheels, to the axis ofwhicharmswere attachedwith flat boards(which hecallsfans) at their extremities; and great ingenuity is said, upon very good authority, to be displayed in the contrivance, not only of the method by which a circular action was produced, but of that by Which the motion of the engine was regulated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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