A sketch of the origin and progress of steam navigation from authentic documents.
By: By Bennet Woodcroft ...
Publisher: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly
Published: 1848
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Steam-navigation -- History; Steamboats; Patents -- Great Britain
Notes: Added t.-p., engr.
"Appeared afterwards as a paper on 'Steam navigation' in the 'Transactions of the Society of arts,' 1852."--Dict. nat. biog., vol. LXII, p. 388.
"List of patents, nearly all of which are for propelling vessels, and other documents relating to propelling, which the author has prepared for publication": p. [122]-140.