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Title: Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran
Author: Howard I. Chapelle
Release Date: February 4, 2010 [EBook #31179]
Language: English
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
BULLETIN 240
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SMITHSONIAN PRESS
MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY
CONTRIBUTIONS
FROM THE
MUSEUM
OF HISTORY AND
TECHNOLOGY
_Papers 34-44_
_On Science and Technology_
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . WASHINGTON, D.C. 1966
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