A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation: Exhibiting the Numerous Advantages to be Derived from Small Canals ; and Boats of Two to Five Feet Wide, Containing from Two to Five Tons Burthen ; with a Description of the Machinery for Facilitating Conveyance by Water Through the Most Mountainous Countries, Independent of Locks and Aqueducts ; Including Observations on the Great Importance of Water Communications, with Thoughts On, and Designs For, Aqueducts and Bridges of Iron and Wood ; Illustrated with Seventeen Plates

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I. and J. Taylor at the Architectural Library, 1796 - 144 էջ
Fulton advises Cartwright to concentrate on his more important projects, such as the "the steam engine, boat moving by steam or cordelier." He believes he can find a market for the cordelier (rope-making machine) and the steam engine in America. Regarding the latter he writes: "The steam engine I hope may be made useful in cutting canals and moving boats, if so it will be directly in my line of business. By the by I have just proved an experiment on moving boats with a fly of 4 parts similar to that of a smoak jack thus [here follows a small diagram of a boat fitted with a propelling device, drawn in the text in Fulton's characteristic manner] I find this applys the power to great advantage and it is extreamly simple, however you may satisfy your mind by a small model giving motion to the flier by a spring of whalebone." There is also an allusion to an invention by "the celebrated Mongolfier who invented the baloons."
 

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Էջ 13 - The woollen coat, for example, which covers the day-labourer, as coarse and rough as it may appear, is the produce of the joint labour of a great multitude of workmen. The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the wool-comber or carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver, the fuller, the dresser, with many others, must all join their different arts in order to complete even this homely production.
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Էջ i - A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation; exhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from small canals. And boats of two to five feet wide, containing from two to five tons burthen.
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