 | American Philosophical Society - 1809 - 532 lapas
...proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate action of steam upon the water. (See his Works). Many attempts to simplify the working of the engine,...into a rotatory motion, were made. For a short time a passage-boat, rowed by a steam-engine, was established between Bordentown and Philadelphia : but it... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - 1823 - 492 lapas
...proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate action of steam upon the water (See his Works). Many attempts to simplify the working of the engine,...into a rotatory motion, were made. For a short time a passage-boat, rowed by a steam-engine, was established between Bordentown and Philadelphia ; but it... | |
 | Thompson Westcott - 1857 - 440 lapas
...boats by steam engines. Dr. Franklin proposed to force the boat forward by the immediate application of steam upon the water. Many attempts to simplify the working of the engine, and more to dispense with the beam in converting the vibratory into a rotary motion, were made. For a short time,... | |
 | Thompson Westcott - 1857 - 432 lapas
...boats by steam engines. Dr. Franklin proposed to force the boat forward by the immediate application of steam upon the water. Many attempts to simplify the working of the engine, and more to dispense with the beam in converting the vibratory into a rotary motion, were made. For a short time,... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1871 - 686 lapas
...boats by steam-engines. Dr. Franklin proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate application of the steam upon the water. Many attempts to simplify...means of dispensing with the beam in converting the libraiory into a rotatory motion, were made. For a short time, a passage-boat, rowed by a steam-engine,... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1872 - 682 lapas
...boats by steam-engines. Dr. Franklin proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate application of the steam upon the water. Many attempts to simplify...a rotatory motion, were made. For a short time, a passage-boat, rowed by a steam-engine, was established between Bordentown and Philadelphia, but it... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - 1884 - 652 lapas
...boats by steam-engines. Dr. Franklin proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate application of the steam upon the water. Many attempts to simplify...means of dispensing with the beam in converting ''the librafory into a rotatory motion, were made. For a short time, a passage-boat, rowed by a steam-engine,... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - 1888 - 650 lapas
...boats by steam-engines. . Dr. Franklin proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate application of the steam upon the water. Many attempts to simplify...a rotatory motion, were made. For a short time, a passage-boat, rowed by a steam-engine, was established between Bordentown and Philadelphia, but it... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1928 - 196 lapas
...proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate action of steam upon the water. (See his Works.) Many attempts to simplify the working of the engine,...means of dispensing with the beam, in converting the vibratory into a rotary motion, were made. For a short time a passage-boat, rowed by a steam-engine,... | |
 | 900 lapas
...proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate action of steam upon the water. (See his Works). Many attempts to simplify the working of the engine,...into a rotatory motion, were made. For a short time a passage-boat, rowed by a steam-engine, was established between Bordentown and Philadelphia : but it... | |
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... into a rotatory motion, were made. For a short time, a passage-boat, rowed by a steam-engine, was established between Bordentown and Philadelphia, but it was soon laid aside. The best and most powerful steam-engine which has been employed for this... 