 | Industrial arts - 1830 - 482 pages
...any surge or commotion on the water — the force employed being one horse, rode by a canal-driver. No account of this trial has ever been given to the...to contract with Mr. Wood, of Port Glasgow, for a gig-shs-cud \j»&INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS WITH CANAL-BOATS. 374 sage-boat, 60 feet in length, and 5... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1831 - 368 pages
...minutes, without raising any surge or commotion on the water—the force employed being one horse, rode by a canal driver. No account of this trial has ever...Wood, of Port Glasgow, for a gig-shaped passage boat, 60 feet in length, and 5 feet in breadth, fitted to carry from 36 to 40 pas-sengers. In the month of... | |
 | Luke Hebert - 1831 - 368 pages
...minutes, without raising any surge or commotion on the water — the force employed being one horse, rode by a canal driver. No account of this trial has ever...Wood, of Port Glasgow, for a gig-shaped passage boat, 60 feet in length, and 5 feet in breadth, fitted to carry from 36 to 40 passengers. In the month of... | |
 | Luke Herbert - Industrial arts - 1831 - 370 pages
...minutes, without raising any surge or commotion on the water — the force employed being one horse, rode by a canal driver. No account of this trial has ever...Wood, of Port Glasgow, for a gig-shaped passage boat, 60 feet in length, and 5 feet in breadth, fitted to carry from 36 to 40 passengers. In the month of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1832 - 834 pages
...in the space of less than ten minutes, without raising any surge or commotion on the water — the force employed being one horse, ridden by a canal...passage boat, sixty feet in length, and five feet in bread th, 'fitted to carry from thirty-six to forty passengers. "In the month of April last, a number... | |
 | Meteorology - 1837 - 970 pages
...minutes, without raising any surge or commotion on the water — the force employed being one horse, rode by a canal driver. No account of this trial has ever...the Ardrossan canal to contract with Mr. Wood, of Port-Glasgow, for a gigshaped passage-boat, sixty feet in length, and five in breadth, fitted to carry... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1838 - 712 pages
...without raising any surge or commotion on the water — the force employed being one horse, ro.'lc by a canal driver. No account of this trial has ever...it was so satisfactory as to induce the committee oí' the Ardroásan canal lo contract with Mr. Wood, of Port-Glasgow, for a gig-shaped passage-bout,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1837 - 528 pages
...minutes, without raising any surge or commotion on the water — the force employed being one horse, rode by a canal driver. No account of this trial has ever...the Ardrossan canal to contract with Mr. Wood, of Port-Glasgow, for a gigshaped passage-boat, sixty feet in length, and five in breadth, fitted to carry... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1830 - 508 pages
...canal-driver. No account of this trial has ever been eiveri to tfie' public, but it was so satisfactory us to induce the Committee of the Ardrossan Canal to contract with Mr. Wood, of Port Glasgow, for я gig-shaped pa«INTKAESTINC. K.XI'KKIMUXT* WITH CAXAI.-UOATS. 574 sage-boat, 60 feet in length, and... | |
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Canal, in the space of less than 10 minutes, without raising any surge or commotion on the water — the force employed being one horse, rode by a canal driver. No account of this trial has ever been given to the public, but it was so satisfactory as... 