Great Fortunes, and how They Were Made: On. The Struggies and Triumphs of Our Self-made MenE. Hannaford & Company, 1872 - 633 pages |
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Page 83 - and had the management of affairs, I would defy them all; but as it is, every thing depends upon you and your friends about you. Our enterprise is grand, and deserves success, and I hope in God it will meet it. If my object was merely gain of money, I should say, think whether it is best to save what we can, and abandon the place ; but the very idea is like a dagger to my heart.
Page 83 - Had our place and our property," he adds, " been fairly captured, I should have preferred it. I should not feel as if I were disgraced.
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Page 265 - The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved. The morning I left New York there were not, perhaps, thirty persons in the city who believed that the boat would ever move one mile an hour, or be of the least utility...
Page 261 - Miller, of Dalwinston, Scotland, designed a double vessel, propelled by a wheel placed in the stern between the two keels. This boat is said to have been very successful, but it was very small, the cylinder being only four inches in diameter. In 1789, Mr. Miller produced a larger vessel on the same plan, which made seven miles per hour in the still water of the Forth and Clyde Canal, but it proved too weak for its machinery, which had to be taken out. It was in the face of these failures that Fulton...
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