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Excerpt from The Steam Engine, From the Earliest to the Present Time: Atmospheric Railways, the Electric Printing Telegraph, and Screw Propeller It is an extraordinary fact, that in this age when knowledge is so easily obtained, so much ignorance is displayed by individuals who it is presumed ought to be well informed. Stand on the deck of a steam-boat - rush through space propelled by steam or atmospheric pressure - gaze on the mysterious electric printing telegraph, or witness the beautiful evolutions of a screw vessel - have a thousand companions with you, and how many will you find that can inform you the variety of steam engine you are propelled by. Atmospheric pressure, electricity, and the operations of the screw, are all inexplicable to the vast majority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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