. A sketch of the origin and progress of steam navigation from authentic documents. e steam engine, and of the variousmodifications proposed or practically adopted at subsequent periods;thus placing before the reader the means of forming a just estimate ofthe pretensions of the several projectors to be ranked as the realauthors of the present System of Steam Navigation. In conclusion, some of the instruments denominated Screw Pro-pellers are duly noticed, with authentic statements of the results ofvarious experiments in which they were applied, and remarks onthose generally in use in Europe an
. A sketch of the origin and progress of steam navigation from authentic documents. e steam engine, and of the variousmodifications proposed or practically adopted at subsequent periods;thus placing before the reader the means of forming a just estimate ofthe pretensions of the several projectors to be ranked as the realauthors of the present System of Steam Navigation. In conclusion, some of the instruments denominated Screw Pro-pellers are duly noticed, with authentic statements of the results ofvarious experiments in which they were applied, and remarks onthose generally in use in Europe and in the United States of Ame-rica. It will be obvious that the facts thus detailed were widely scat-tered, and in some few instances difficult of access: they have con-sequently been collected and arranged from many sources, and thecompilation is now submitted as forming a book of reference whichmay be found not only useful, but interesting to those who seek forinformation as to the origin and progress of Steam Navigation. B. WOODCKOFT. 1, Furnivals Inn, Holborn,November, STEAM NAVIGATION.
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