Word: steamboat
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...observation train for the Freshman and four-oared races will leave New London at 10.15 A. M. The price of the tickets is $1. The observation train for the University eight-oared race will leave New London at 4 P. M. Tickets for this train are $2.50 each. The steamboat service for the University eight-oared race is as follows: steamer "Richard Peck" will leave New Haven, Belle Dock, at 12 o'clock. It will pass through the drawbridge and anchor as near as possible to the finish, returning immediately after the race. The fare is $1.75. Steamer "City...
Robert Fulton, although he neither invented nor first applied the principles of the steamboat, has been hailed as its inventor simply because he had the breadth of imagination and the enthusiasm to embody the impractical ideas of his predecessors in a useful form. And he deserves the credit he is given; for, according to Lord Telford, who said, "Engineering is the art of directing the great sources and powers of nature for the use and convenience of man," he was a true civil engineer...