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Abstract of an address on ocean steam navigation, and naval architecture : delivered before the Board of Trade, Philadelphia, May, 1861 by I. Palmer Baldwin
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Wf*.303
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baldwin, I. Palmer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Steamboats--Designs and plans.
- Local Subjects:
- Steamboats--Designs and plans.
- Physical Description:
- 16 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Ocean steam navigation.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Crissy & Markley, Printers, 1862.
- Notes:
- "Showing the causes why ocean steam lines have hitherto failed to attain high speed, or to sustain themselves at even a moderate rate, without government aid. Also, how to build steam ships that will not only be commodious, safe, rapid and economical, but highly remunerative."
- Local Notes:
- Inscription: John Biddle.
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