. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ; , at Fremont, Ohio. The planthas an easy capacity of 500,000 gallonsper day, and the situation is an idealone to show the benefit of this treat-ment, both on account of the charac-ter of the water and the amount usedby the two roads. Very little attention is required inkeeping a plant of this kind in runningorder; in fact, a small portion of the building about New York harbor. Whileso engaged he invented the verticalwheel propeller, which did so much tomake steamboating practicabl
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ; , at Fremont, Ohio. The planthas an easy capacity of 500,000 gallonsper day, and the situation is an idealone to show the benefit of this treat-ment, both on account of the charac-ter of the water and the amount usedby the two roads. Very little attention is required inkeeping a plant of this kind in runningorder; in fact, a small portion of the building about New York harbor. Whileso engaged he invented the verticalwheel propeller, which did so much tomake steamboating practicable. Soon after Robert Fulton began op-eratinc steamboats on the Hildson, Cap-tain Roosevelt conceived the idea of us-ing steamboats on the western good deal of doubt was expressed asto the practicability of the undertaking,but Captain Roosevelt was enthusiastic,and along about 1810 made a personalsurvey of the Ohio and Lower Missis-sippi to determine its feasibility beyondall peradventure. The result of his sur-vey was entirely to his satisfaction, and,returning to Pittsburgh, he began the. OTTO WATER PrKIIVINi; AT FREMONT, O. time of the pumper will be all the la-bor required. A report which we have seen fromthe cliemist of the Lake Shore & Mich-igan Southern, shows that in the courseof a recorded test of the Otto watersoftening plant reduced to solids in thewaior from to grains to Captain Roosevelt Navigated of the pioneer navigators of theOhio and Mississippi rivers was Nich-olas J. Roosevelt, grandfather of Pres-ident Roosevelt. Early in the nine-teenth century Captain Roosevelt wasassociated with John Stevens and Rob-ert R. Livingston in experimental boat construction of a steamboat from plansfurnished him by, Fulton and Living-stone. In the spring of 1811 the vesselwas launched, and, accompanied by hiswife, who had the true pioneer spiritand refused to be left behind, the Presi-dents grandfather began his voyagedown
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