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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100 | 1 | |a Fulton, Robert, |d 1765-1815. | |
245 | 1 | 2 | |a A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation : |b 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 |c by R. Fulton, civil engineer |
260 | |a London. : |b Published by I. and J. Taylor at the Architectural Library, |c 1796. | ||
300 | |a xvi, 144 p., 17 leaves of plates : |b ill. ; |c 28 cm. (4to) | ||
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590 | |a Volume presented to George Washington with Washington's signature. Letter, Sept. 12, 1796, from Fulton to Washington. 8 p. MS. supplement by Fulton. | ||
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