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... miles in- specting postal affairs , but in 1764 he was again sent to England to renew the petition for a royal government for Pennsylvania , which had not yet been granted . Presently that petition was made obsolete by the Stamp Act ...
... miles in- specting postal affairs , but in 1764 he was again sent to England to renew the petition for a royal government for Pennsylvania , which had not yet been granted . Presently that petition was made obsolete by the Stamp Act ...
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... miles a day was the speed of the best coaches , provided always that they did not tumble into the ditch . In many parts of the country one must needs travel on horseback or on foot . Even the wealthiest Americans of those days had few ...
... miles a day was the speed of the best coaches , provided always that they did not tumble into the ditch . In many parts of the country one must needs travel on horseback or on foot . Even the wealthiest Americans of those days had few ...
Page 38
... miles from Savannah with an expectation of spending four or five days and then proceed into Caro- lina to take the school as I have mentioned in former letters . During this time I heard much said of the extreme difficulty of ginning ...
... miles from Savannah with an expectation of spending four or five days and then proceed into Caro- lina to take the school as I have mentioned in former letters . During this time I heard much said of the extreme difficulty of ginning ...
Page 58
... miles an hour against the current of the Potomac . The most interesting of these early and unsuc- cessful inventors is John Fitch , who was a Connec- ticut clockmaker living in Philadelphia . He was eccentric and irregular in his habits ...
... miles an hour against the current of the Potomac . The most interesting of these early and unsuc- cessful inventors is John Fitch , who was a Connec- ticut clockmaker living in Philadelphia . He was eccentric and irregular in his habits ...
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... miles an hour . This grant had , of course , been forfeited , but might be renewed , Livingston thought . Fulton and Livingston met , probably at Bar- low's house , and , in 1802 , drew up an agreement to construct a steamboat to ply ...
... miles an hour . This grant had , of course , been forfeited , but might be renewed , Livingston thought . Fulton and Livingston met , probably at Bar- low's house , and , in 1802 , drew up an agreement to construct a steamboat to ply ...
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afterwards Albany American balloon became began Benjamin Franklin better boat Boston Boulton and Watt brothers built Canal CHAPTER Charles Goodyear chine Clermont cloth colonies Colt Congress cotton gin Curtiss discovery Dwight Goddard dynamo early Edison electricity Eli Whitney England experiments factory farm father flying Haven Henry Howe's hundred idea improved industry invention inventor James Watt John Stevens labor Langley later light Livingston locomotive London Lowell machinery manufacture mechanical ment miles Miller mills Morse motor newspapers Oliver Evans partners Patent Act Pennsylvania Philadelphia ploughs practical principle printing produced profits railway reaper Robert Fulton rubber Samuel Samuel Colt SAMUEL F. B. MORSE says sewing machine sold soon South spinning steam engine steamboat story success telegraph thousand dollars tion took turn United Washington Whitney's wings wire Wright York young