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Full Steam Ahead: The Steam Engine and Transportation in the Nineteenth Century
Excerpts from A Rudimentary Treatise on the Steam Engine by Dionysius Lardner, 1848.

Excerpts from A Rudimentary Treatise on the Steam Engine by Dionysius Lardner, 1848.

Citation Information
Lardner, Dionysius, excerpts from “A rudimentary treatise on the steam engine: for the use of beginners,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/6008cf5c0fc081dcfe1e102a101ae4d1.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of Harvard University via HathiTrust.

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Item 2 of 15 in the Primary Source Set Full Steam Ahead: The Steam Engine and Transportation in the Nineteenth Century

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Excerpts from A Rudimentary Treatise on the Steam Engine by Dionysius Lardner, 1848.
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A broadside advertising the steamboat Nyack, which offered ferry service between Nyack, New York and New York City, 1827.
An advertisement for the steamboat Linda, traveling among Sacramento, Marysville, and Yuba City, California along the Feather River, 1850.
A photograph of a multi-level steamboat in New Orleans, Louisiana.
A photograph of cotton on the levees in New Orleans with river steamboats in background, ca. 1870s-1880s.
A photograph of a railroad car before steam locomotives, ca. 1834.
A stereograph of passengers at a train station in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, ca. 1850.
A photograph of the Pioneer, a steam locomotive, which was built in Boston and put into service in San Francisco, ca. 1868.
An 1863 bond sold by the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad.
A broadside advertising the Red Bird line as a travel alternative in “opposition to the railroad,” 1847.
An 1850 map with the title “Traveller’s Map of New England and Canada Showing all the Railroad, Steamboat, Canal and Stage Routes.”
Excerpts from Disturnell’s New and Complete Railroad and Steamship Guide, 1857.

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