The Life of Robert Fulton ...: Read Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York: Compromising Some Account of the Invention, Progress, and Establishment of Steam-boats...Kirk & Mercein [T. & W. Mercein, printers], 1817 - 371 pages |
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