Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY GESSFORD A VAN BR PROF. CHARLES E. TRIPLER HE IS TO LIQUID AIR WHAT EDISON IS TO ELECTRICITY. THIS NEW AND GREAT DISCOVERY iSDESTINED TO REVOLUTIONIZE EVERYTHING PERTAINING TO THE SUPPLY OF MOTIVE POWERFOR TRANSPORTATION, MACHINERY, REFRIGERATION, MANUFACTURE OF POWERFUL EXPLOS-IVES, Etc. the ABOVE ILLUSTRATION SHOWS A HAMMER OF FROZFN SCENE ON BOARD A SGHOOLSHIP CADETS CHEERINGTHE LIFE-BOAT ROBERT FULTON. 33 highest. The friends of the inventor wer
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY GESSFORD A VAN BR PROF. CHARLES E. TRIPLER HE IS TO LIQUID AIR WHAT EDISON IS TO ELECTRICITY. THIS NEW AND GREAT DISCOVERY iSDESTINED TO REVOLUTIONIZE EVERYTHING PERTAINING TO THE SUPPLY OF MOTIVE POWERFOR TRANSPORTATION, MACHINERY, REFRIGERATION, MANUFACTURE OF POWERFUL EXPLOS-IVES, Etc. the ABOVE ILLUSTRATION SHOWS A HAMMER OF FROZFN SCENE ON BOARD A SGHOOLSHIP CADETS CHEERINGTHE LIFE-BOAT ROBERT FULTON. 33 highest. The friends of the inventor were in a state of feverish anxietylest the enterprise should come to grief, and the scoffers on the wharfwere all ready to give vent to their shouts of derision. Precisely as thehour struck, the moorings were thrown off, and the Clermont movedslowly out into the stream. Volumes of smoke and sparks from herfurnaces, which were fed with pine wood, rushed forth from her chimney,and her wheels, which were uncovered, scattered the spray far behind spectacle she presented as she moved out gradually from her dockwas certainly novel to the people of those days, and the crowd on thewharf broke into shouts of ricicule. LOUD CHEERS FROM THE VAST THRONG. Soon, however, the jeers grew silent, for it was seen that the steamerwas by degrees increasing her speed. In a little while she was fairlyunder weigh, and making a steady progress up the stream at the rate offive miles per hou
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