A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine

by Robert Henry Thurston

[70] Rev. Cyrus Mann, in the Boston Recorder, 1858.

[71] Westcott.

[72] This is substantially an arrangement that has recently become common. It has been repatented by later inventors.

[73] “Nathan Read and the Steam-Engine.”

[74] “Encyclopædia Americana.”

[75] “A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat,” J. H. B. Latrobe, 1871.

[76] Vide “Life of Fulton,” Reigart.

[77] Vide “Life of Fulton,” Colden.

[78] A French inventor, a watchmaker of Trévoux, named Desblancs, had already deposited at the Conservatoire a model fitted with “chaplets.”

[79] Woodcroft, p. 64.