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Nathan Read : his invention of the multi-tubular boiler and portable high-pressure engine, and discovery of the true mode of applying steam-power to navigation and railways. A contribution to the early history of the steamboat and locomotive engine by his friend and nephew, David Read
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Gr.25
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Read, David, 1799-1881.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Read, Nathan, 1759-1849.
- Read, Nathan.
- Steamboats.
- Locomotives.
- Physical Description:
- xv, [1], 201 p. : ill. (port.) 11 plates ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1870.
- Notes:
- Preface dated 1860.
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