A treatise on navigation by steam
Subtitle: comprising a history of the steam engine, and an essay towards a system of the naval tactics peculiar to steam navigation, as applicable both to commerce and maritime warfare; including a comparison of its advantages as related to other systems in the circumstances of speed, safety and economy, but more particularly in that of the national defence.
By: Illustrated with plates and engravings. By Captain John Ross.
Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; [etc., etc.]
Published: 1828
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Steam-navigation.; Steam-engines -- Early works to 1850.; Naval art and science.
Notes: "List of authors on the subject of steam": p. 174.
Author's presentation copy.