The First Steam-Boat
Forfatter: Jonathan Hulls
År: 1860
Forlag: E. & F. N. Spon
Sted: Bucklersbury
Sider: 48
UDK: 629.120(09)
Description And Draught Of A New-Invented Machine For Carrying Vessels Or Ships Out Of, Or Into Any Harbour, Port, Or River, Against Wind And Tide, Or In A Calm.
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WHEREAS feveral Perfons
concern’d in 'the Navigation
have defired fome Account of my In-
vention for carrying Ships Out of and
into Harbours^ Ports and Rivers^, when
they have nota lair Wind.
But I cou]d not’ fully defcribe this
Machine without Writinga fmall Trea-
tne of the fame., in which I fhalJ endea-
vour to Demonftrate the PoilibiJity and
Probability of the Matter undertaken.
Thereis one great Hardfhip lies too
commonly upon thine whopropofe-to
Advance forne “New, th o’ ufeiul, Scheme
for the publick Benefit: The World
aboundingmoi~e in rafh Cenfure than
in a candid and unprejudiced Eib’ma-
tion of Things, if a Perfon does not
Aniwer their Éa pefhation in every
Point, inileacJ of Friendly Treatment
for his good Intentions he too often
meets with Ridicule and Contempt.
But Ï hope that this will not be my
Cafe y but that they will form a Judg-
ment