| American Philosophical Society - 1809 - 532 páginas
...started into very general notice, in a form in which U could not possibly be attended with much success. A sort of mania began to prevail, which indeed has not yet entirely subsided, for impelling boats by steam-engines. — Dr. Franklin proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate... | |
| Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 400 páginas
...into very general notice, in a form, in which it could not possibly be attended with much success. A sort of mania began to prevail, which indeed has not yet entirely subsided, for impelling boats by steam-engines. Dr. Franklin proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate... | |
| Cadwallader David Colden - 1818 - 192 páginas
...into very general notice, in a form, in which it could not possibly be attended with much success. A sort of mania began to prevail, which indeed has not yet entirely subsided, for impelling boats by steam engines. Dr. Franklin proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate... | |
| Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1823 - 492 páginas
...started into very general notice, in a form in which it could not possibly be attended with much success. A sort of mania began to prevail, which indeed has not yet entirely subsided, for impelling boats by steam-engines. Dr. Franklin proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate... | |
| 1841 - 542 páginas
...practicability of Steam Navigation. Mr. BH Latrobe read te, result in a report, in which he says :h " A sort of mania began to prevail, which indeed has not yet entirely subsided., fat pcHing Ъо«Л» Vj-j ' lin proposed Vo immediate action of the steam upon the water." At this... | |
| 1846 - 606 páginas
...projects ' for propelling boats by steam-engines,' uses these remarkable expressions : ' A sort of mama began to prevail, which indeed has not yet entirely...gentleman in the American Medical and Philosophical Regisier, for April, 18 11, has given a demonstration to prove that a small obstacle would be sufficient... | |
| 1846 - 602 páginas
...animadverting on the projects ' for propelling boats by steam-engines,' uses tiie.se remarkable expressions : ' A sort of mania began to prevail, which indeed has...surely unnecessary to say, that in despite of the lormidable o^ections, (no less than six,) he has urged, ' from which,' as lie tells ив, ' no particular... | |
| 1855 - 364 páginas
...for the information of Congress, thus treated the subject: — " After the close of our Revolution, a sort of MANIA began to prevail — which, indeed, has not yet entirely iitbsided — for impelling boats by steam-engines. . . . There are objections to their use, from which... | |
| John Franklin Reigart - 1856 - 422 páginas
...started into very general notice in a form in which it could not possibly be attended with success. A sort of mania began to prevail, which indeed has not yet entirely subsided, for impelling boats by steamengines. Dr. Franklin proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate... | |
| James D. McCabe - 1871 - 686 páginas
...started into very general notice in a form in which it could not possibly be attended with success. A sort of mania began to prevail, which, indeed, has not yet entirely subsided, for impelling boats by steam-engines. Dr. Franklin proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate... | |
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