Mother West Wind's Children

During the maple sugar season of the spring of 1858, a well-to-do farmer, of western New York, whittled out a spiral or augur-like screw-propeller, in miniature, which he thought admirably adapted to the canal. He soon after went to Buffalo, and contracted for a boat to be built, with two of his Archimedean screws for propulsion by steam.

• • Author: Thornton Burgess
• • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Jun 28, 2018
• • Number of Pages: 98 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1979020590
• • ISBN-13: 9781979020596