History of Propellers and Steam Navigation. With Biographical Sketches of the Early Inventors [with six-pages of manuscript notes on "Steam Boiler Trials"]

Published by George P. Putnam, New-York, 1851

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New-York: George P. Putnam, 1851. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's gilt-embossed pebble-grained cloth;144pp.;illustrations throughout including frontispiece. Chipped with loss to spine ends; edgewear with exposure to corners. Binding sound. Spotting to endpapers, ownership inscription to front pastedownofC.W. Pusey dated Sept. 10, 1863 with "Wilmington, Delaware" written in pencil below; about Very Good. Laid in are six pages of manuscript notes, presumably in Pusey's hand, detailing his experiments for an "Improvised Apparatus for Steam Boiler Trials," and "Testing Steam Engines by the amount of heat carried off by the Condensing water." Though undated and unsigned, this appears to matchthe ownership signature of Charles Pusey, detailing his experiments and mathematical equations. Founded in 1848, Wilmington-based Pusey and Jones was a major shipbuilder during the Civil War all the way through World War II. Charles W. Pusey, son of the founder, later became President of Pusey and Jones and was lauded in one 1900 newspaper account as one of Wilmington's foremost businessmen and a mechanical engineer of note, having written several treatises for scientific journals. See The Evening Journal (Wilmington, Delaware), Wednesday, August 22, 1900, p. 5.…

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Title
History of Propellers and Steam Navigation. With Biographical Sketches of the Early Inventors [with six-pages of manuscript notes on "Steam Boiler Trials"]
Author
Robert MacFarlane; [Charles W. Pusey]
Publisher
George P. Putnam, New-York
Publication year
1851
Condition
Very Good
Edition
1st Edition
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19th Century, Civil War, Manuscripts and Autographs, Nautical & Maritime, Science & Technology

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