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A treatise on navigation by steam; 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. Illustrated with plates and engravings. By Captain John Ross.

Title
A treatise on navigation by steam; 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. Illustrated with plates and engravings. By Captain John Ross.
Author
Ross, John, Sir, 1777-1856
Publication
London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; [etc., etc.] 1828.

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Description
xxiii, 182p., 1 ℓ., 68p. front., illus., pl., diagrs.; 28x23cm.
Subject
  • Steam-navigation
  • Steam-engines > Early works to 1850
  • Naval art and science
Genre/Form
Early works
Note
  • "List of authors on the subject of steam": p. 174.
  • Author's presentation copy.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
LCCN
^^^17009967^
OCLC
  • 1116923
  • SCSB-10296322
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library