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.

Fulton

1796

xvi, 144 p., [17] p. of plates : ill. ; 29 cm.

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This is the title page of a book about canal navigation, detailing improvements and machinery for water transport. It includes information on aqueducts and bridges, and is illustrated with seventeen plates. Special Collections EX 9180.371