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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Fulton, Robert, 1765–1815
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1796
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Canals -- Early works to 1800.
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Cartwright, Edmund -- ALS from Robert Fulton.
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Fulton, Robert -- ALS to Edmund Cartwright.
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Inland navigation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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Inland water transportation -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800.
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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 / by R. Fulton, civil engineer.
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Fulton, Robert, 1765–1815
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1796
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xvi, 144 pages, 17 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
