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Custom house guide.
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- Philadelphia, Arthur Binns, [etc.], -1985.
- 1880-1985
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text JLM 85-502 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text JLM 85-502 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text JLM 85-502 Offsite Poor John Fitch, inventor of the steamboat, by Thomas Boyd.
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- New York, G.P. Putnam's sons [c1935]
- 1935
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text AN (Fitch) (Boyd, T. A. Poor John Fitch) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text NYGB CT 275 F577 B69 Offsite An historical souvenir / presented by the Hudson River Day Line, New York, on Robert Fulton Day, August 17th, 1907, to commemorate the centennial of Fulton's "Clermont", the first successful steamboat in the world, which started up the Hudson at 1 p.m., August 17th, 1807.
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- [New York?] : The Day Line, 1907.
- 1907
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text IRM (Hudson River) (Historical souvenir) Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A brief narrative, proving the right of the late William Symington ... to be considered the inventor of steam land carriage locomotion : and also the inventor and introducer of steam navigation / by Robert Bowie ; with illustrative drawings, from the originals, by William Symington, junior.
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- London : Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1833.
- 1833
- 1 Item
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433006698694Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXHD (Bowie, R. Brief narrative) Offsite Remarks on canal navigation, illustrative of the advantages of the use of steam, as a moving power on canals. With an appendix, containing a series of experiments, tables, &c. on which a number of proposed improvements are founded ...
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- London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, [etc., etc.] 1831.
- 1831
- 2 Items
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433008190781Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text (Parsons) VDCP (Fairbairn, W. Remarks on canal navigation) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXHD (Fairbairn, W. Remarks on canal navigation) Offsite The Atlantic ferry, its ships, men, and working.
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- London, Whittaker, 1892.
- 1892
- 1 Item
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433008191177Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXHD (Maginnis, A. J. Atlantic ferry) Offsite Practical hints for the better navigation and guidance of steam vessels, with a view to the prevention of accidents at sea ... Also a brief account of the steam engine, and some recent improvements in its construction. To which is added, a description of the most remarkable objects upon the sea coasts.
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- London, Printed for the author, and sold by J. W. Norie, 1826.
- 1826
- 1 Item
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433008146312Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXHD (Waldron, C. Practical hints for the better navigation and guidance of steam vessels) Offsite Oil tank steamers : their working and pumping arrangements thoroughly explained / 43 chapters with 15 diagrams, and new tables for calculating weights of oil and water / by Herbert John White.
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- Glasgow : J. Brown & Son, 1925.
- 1925
- 1 Item
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433008146007Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXHD (White, H. J. Oil tank steamers. 1925) Offsite An analysis of one hundred voyages to and from India, China, &c., performed by ships in the honorable East India Company's service; with remarks on the advantages of steam-power applied as an auxiliary aid to shipping; and suggestions for improving thereby the communication with India, viâ the Cape of Good Hope. To which is added an appendix, containing a description of Melville's patent propellers, with plans of the engines, machinery, &c. By Henry Wise.
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- London, Pub. for the author, by J. W. Norie, 1839.
- 1839
- 1 Item
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http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433008145843Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXHD (Wise, H. Analysis of one hundred voyages to and from India) Offsite Steamship conquest of the world, by Frederick A. Talbot.
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- Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company [1912]
- 1912
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VXH (Talbot, F. A. Steamship conquest of the world) (1912) Offsite 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.
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- London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; [etc., etc.] 1828.
- 1828
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXHD+ (Ross, J. Treatise of navigation by steam) Offsite A treatise of 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 / by Sir John Ross.
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- London : J. Weale, 1837.
- 1837
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VXHD+ (Ross, J. Treatise of navigation by steam) Offsite Note marinare; letture pei marini (con ritratto di Cristoforo Colombo)
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- Venezia, F. Ongania, 1892.
- 1892
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VX (Raineri, S. Note marinare) Offsite The modern system of naval architecture, by J. Scott Russell ...
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- London, Day and Son [1864-65]
- 1864-1865
- 4 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VXH+++ (Russell, J. S. Modern system of naval architecture) plates 1-80 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VXH+++ (Russell, J. S. Modern system of naval architecture) v. 1 (Text) pp. 1-332 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VXH+++ (Russell, J. S. Modern system of naval architecture) v. 1 (Text) pp. 333-686 Offsite Remarks on steam navigation and its protection, regulation, and encouragement : in a letter to the Right Honourable William Huskisson ... / by Thomas Tredgold.
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- London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.
- 1825
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text (Parsons) VDCP (Tredgold, T. Remarks on stream navigation and its protection, regulation, and encouragement) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A description and draught of a new-invented machine for carrying vessels or ships out of, or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind and tide, or in a calm. For which his majesty has granted Letters patent, for the sole benefit of the author, for the space of fourteen years.
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- London, Printed for the author, 1737.
- 1737
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text (Parsons) VDCP (Hulls, J. Description and draught of a new-invented machine) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text *KC 1737 (Hulls, J. Description and draught of a new-invented machine) Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Watt and the steam age, by John W. Grant ... A concise history of the art of steam navigation, mechanical and marine engineering, paddle and screw steamers; reciprocating engines, steam-turbines and electricity.
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- London, St. Bride's press, ltd., 1917.
- 1917
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text VF (Grant, J. W. Watt and the steam age) Offsite Boston and Liverpool : Reports of the American Steamship Company for 1864 and 1865, with list of officers, &c.
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- Boston : J.H. Eastburn's Press, 1866.
- 1866
- 1 Item
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.ah55lpItem details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text TRK (American Steamship Company. Reports) Offsite Ocean steam navigation and the ocean post. By Thomas Rainey.
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- New York, D. Appleton & Co.; London, Trübner & Co., 1858.
- 1858
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text TVC (Rainey, T. Ocean steam navigation and the ocean post) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text TVC (Rainey, T. Ocean steam navigation and the ocean post) Offsite The development of transportation with special reference to the life of Robert Fulton and his successful application of steam to navigation / by Col. H. O. S. Heistand.
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- New York : Robert Fulton Monument Association, [1907]
- 1907
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text AN p.v. 125 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Ocean steam navigation.
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- Boston : [s.n.], 1864.
- 1864
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text TR p.v. 36 no. 1-7 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
On the general application of low steam power to all vessels, instead of sails.
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- [London?] 1840.
- 1840
The learned donkeys of eighteen hundred and forty seven [microform] : being a review of the reviewers of railway locomotion, and steam navigation : their principles and practice / by John Curr.
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- London : J. Williams and Co., 1847.
- 1847
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Microform *ZV TPE p.v. 1-TPFB p.v. 1 Offsite The history of North Atlantic steam navigation [microform] : with some account of early ships and shipowners / by Henry Fry.
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- London : Sampson Low, Marston, 1896.
- 1896
Steam navigation, and its relation to the commerce of Canada and the United States [microform].
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- Toronto : W. Briggs, 1898.
- 1970-1898
The Atlantic ferry [microform] : its ships, men, and working.
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- London : Whittaker, 1892.
- 1970-1892
Ocean steam navigation and the ocean post [electronic resource] / by Thomas Rainey.
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- New York : D. Appleton & co. ; London : Trubner & co., 1858.
- 1858
- 1 Resource
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY100963542&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplSpecimina ichnographica [electronic resource] : or, a brief narrative of several new inventions, and experiments; particularly, the navigating a ship in a calm, the improvement of the engine to raise water by fire, a new method of drying malt, &c. For all which his Majesty has lately been most graciously pleas'd to grant his Letters Patent to John Allen, M. D.
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- London : printed for W. Innys at the West End of St. Paul's, MDCCXXX. [1730]
- 1730
- 1 Resource
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http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0965900800&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nyplGilbert H. Montague collection of Robert Fulton manuscripts, 1796-1815.
- Mixed material
- 1796-1815
- 3 Items
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/5ecc85d0-d68d-0134-45ae-00505686d14eItem details Format Call Number Item Location Archival mix MssCol 18136 Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Archival mix MssCol 18136 Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Archival mix MssCol 18136 Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Robert Fulton collection, 1767-1816.
- Mixed material
- 1767-1816
- 3 Items
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/d7918940-5940-0137-a6ca-355c399b1b87Item details Format Call Number Item Location Archival mix MssCol 18244 Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Archival mix MssCol 18244 Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Archival mix MssCol 18244 Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
In Senate of the United States : March 2, 1840 -- Mr. Ruggles submitted the following report (to accompany bill S. No. 247).
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- [Washington] : Blair & Rives, printers, [1840]
- 1840
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text VF p.v. 1 no. 1-4 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Life of Robert Fulton / by Cadwallader D. Colden ; illustrated by Thos. Addis Emmet M.D., 1887.
- Mixed material
- 1887
- 2 Items
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/5bd5be60-21ed-0135-a695-65ceed5ce189Item details Format Call Number Item Location Archival Mix MssCol 18116 folder 1 Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Archival Mix MssCol 18116 volume 1 Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Correspondence respecting the steam vessels which were intended to form the expedition to Greece, under the command of Lord Cochrane : together with copies of the original agreements entered into with his Lordship and with Mr. galloway, the Engineer.
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- London : Effingham Wilson, 1827.
- 1827
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/text *C p.v. 130 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Poor John Fitch, inventor of the steamboat / by Thomas Boyd.
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- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1935], [©1935]
- 1935-1935
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 973.209 F553 Off-site De la navigation à vapeur.
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- Paris, 1867.
- 1867
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text 621.12 R15 Off-site The modern system of naval architecture / by J. Scott Russell.
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- London : Day and son, [1864-65]
- 1864
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text 699 R91 F v.1 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text 699 R91 F v.2 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text 699 R91 F v.3 Off-site An analysis of one hundred voyages to and from India, China, &c. : performed by ships in the honorable East India Company\u0027s service; with remarks on the advantages of steam-power applied as an auxiliary aid to shipping; and suggestions for improving thereby the communication with India, viâ the Cape of Good Hope / To which is added an appendix, containing a description of Melville\u0027s patent propellers, with plans of the engines, machinery, &c. By Henry Wise.
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- London : Pub. for the author, by J. W. Norie, 1839.
- 1839
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text 565 W75 Off-site Steam propulsion developments / with sections on naval architectural features.
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- Liverpool : "The Journal of commerce and shipping telegraph", 1933.
- 1933
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 621.12 F41 Off-site Ocean steam navigation and the ocean post / By Thomas Rainey.
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- New York : D. Appleton & Co.; London : Trübner & Co., 1858.
- 1858
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text 383 R13 Off-site Ocean steam navigation.
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- Boston : [s.n.], 1864.
- 1864
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Econ 4268.1 Off-site Essai sur l'art de la navigation par la vapeur.
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- Paris, Bachelier, 1820.
- 1820
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Eng 5188.20 Off-site Steamship conquest of the world / by Frederick A. Talbot.
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- Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1912.
- 1912
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Eng 5189.13.5 Off-site The past, present and future of Atlantic Ocean steam navigation, read before Fredericton Athenaeum, June 15, 1857.
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- Fredericton, J. Simpson, 1857.
- 846
- 1 Item
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http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:005190884Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Econ 4279.11 Off-site An historical souvenir / presented by the Hudson River Day Line, New York, on Robert Fulton Day, August 17th, 1907, to commemorate the centennial of Fulton's "Clermont", the first successful steamboat in the world, which started up the Hudson at 1 p.m., August 17th, 1807.
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- [New York?] : The Day Line, 1907.
- 1907
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text US 2438.25.6 Off-site Steam and its uses : including the steam engine, the locomotive, and steam navigation / by Dionysius Lardner.
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- London : Walton and Maberly, 1856.
- 1856
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Eng 2698.56.5 Off-site Notes for a history of steam navigation.
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- Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1881.
- 1881
- 2 Items
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http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:006361585Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Eng 5188.81 Off-site Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text KG 5869 Off-site Le marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans : inventeur de l'application de la vapeur à la navigation / J.-C. Alfred Prost.
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- Paris : E. Leroux, 1889.
- 1889
- 1 Item
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http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.FIG:006362928Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Eng 84.1 Off-site Nouveau système de navigation fondé sur le prinicipe de l'émergence des corps ronds roulant sur l'eau; hydro-locomotives à grande vitisse, porties sur des cylindres ronlants; vol à la surface de l'eau.
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- Paris, Librairie nouvelle, 1854.
- 1854
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Eng 5308.54.3 Off-site 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.
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- London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green; [etc., etc.] 1828.
- 1828
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Book/Text Eng 5188.28 Off-site Not available - Please for assistance.
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