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History of propellers and steam navigation : with biographical sketches of the early inventors /

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Main Author:	Macfarlane, Robert, 1815-1883
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : G.P. Putnam, 1851.
Subjects:	Steam-navigation > History.

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