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The Steam-engine: Being a Popular Description of the Construction and Action ... - Page 154
by Hugo Reid - 1838 - 203 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 600 pages
...beautiful appearance. This uncommon light first attracted the attention of crews of other vessels. Notwithstanding the wind and tide were adverse to...rapidly coming towards them ; and when it came so near as that the noise of the machinery and paddles were heard, the crews (if what was said in the newspapers...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1818 - 598 pages
...beautiful appearance. This uncommon light first attracted the attention of crews of other vessels. Notwithstanding the wind and tide were adverse to...rapidly coming towards them ; and when it came so near as that the noise of the machinery and paddles were heard, the crews (if what was taid in the newspapers...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 pages
...beautiful appearance. This uncommon light first attracted the attention of crews of other vessels. Notwithstanding the wind and tide were adverse to its approach, they saw with astonishment that u was rapidly coming towards them ; and when it came so near as that the noise of the machinery and...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1819 - 630 pages
...beautiful appearance. This uncommon light first attracted the attention of crews of other vessels. Notwithstanding the wind and tide were adverse to...rapidly coming towards them ; and when it came so near as that the noise of the machinery and paddles were heard, the crewa (if what wa> said in the newspapers...
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a ...

Charles Frederick Partington - 1822 - 474 pages
...beautiful appearance. This uncommon light first attracted the attention of the crews of other vessels. Notwithstanding the wind and tide were adverse to its approach they saw with astonishF Americans in support of this apparently new discovery, that the immense rivers of the new...
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a ...

Charles Frederick Partington - 1822 - 382 pages
...operation on the river Mississippi, and its tributary streams, has been published by Mr. Robinson. uient that it was rapidly coming towards them ; and when it came so near as that the noise of the machinery and paddles was heard, the crews in some instances shrunk beneath...
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An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Steam Engine: Comprising a ...

Charles Frederick Partington - 1826 - 356 pages
...beautiful appearance. This uncommon light first attracted the attention of the crews of other vessels. Notwithstanding the wind and tide were adverse to...rapidly coming towards them ; and when it came so near as that the noise of the machinery and paddles was heard, the crews in some instances shrunk beneath...
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Popular Lectures on the Steam Engine: In which Its Construction and ...

Dionysius Lardner - 1828 - 234 pages
...beautiful appearance. This uncommon light first attracted the attention of the crews of other vessels. Notwithstanding the 'wind and tide were adverse to...rapidly coming towards them ; and when it came so near as that the noise of the machinery and paddles was heard, the crews, in some instances shrunk beneath...
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Popular Lectures on the Steam Engine: In which Its Construction and ...

Dionysius Lardner - 1828 - 222 pages
...beautiful appearance. This uncommon light first attracted the attention of the crews of other vessels. Notwithstanding the wind and tide were adverse to...rapidly coming towards them ; and when it came so near as that the noise of the machinery and paddles was heard, the crews, in some instances shrunk beneath...
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Historical and Descriptive Anecdotes of Steam-engines: And of ..., Volume 2

Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - 1829 - 418 pages
...first attracted the attention of the crews of other vessels. Not490 VOYAGE TO ALBANY. withstanding the wind and tide were adverse to its approach, they saw with astonishment that it was rapidly coining towards them; and when it came so near, as that the noise of the machinery and the paddles...
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