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The West: its commerce and navigation. by Hall, James,1793-1868.(CARDINAL)137314;
Subjects: Steam-navigation; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Report of the practicality of navigating with steam boats, on the southern waters of the United States, from the Chesapeake to the River St. Mary's, forming part of a line of steamboat communications, now establishing, from the northern extremity of Lake Champlain to East-Florida, a distance of fifteen hundred miles. / by Fulton, Robert,1765-1815.(CARDINAL)124667;
Subjects: Steam-navigation; Inland navigation; Inland navigation; North Caroliniana.; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Steam : the untold story of America's first great invention / by Sutcliffe, Andrea J.(CARDINAL)463554;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Fitch, John, 1743-1798.; Rumsey, James, 1743?-1792.; Marine engineers; Steam-navigation; Inventors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mr. Roosevelt's steamboat [large print] / by Dohan, Mary Helen.(CARDINAL)518965;
Bibliography: pages 337-345.
Subjects: Large print books.; Roosevelt, Nicholas J., 1767-1854.; New Orleans (Steamboat); Steam-navigation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mr. Roosevelt's steamboat / by Dohan, Mary Helen.(CARDINAL)518965;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and index.The story of the New Orleans, the first steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River, and its first hazardous voyage beginning in 1811.
Subjects: Roosevelt, Nicholas J., 1767-1854.; New Orleans (Steamboat); Steam-navigation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Internal improvements in antebellum North Carolina / by Watson, Alan D.,1942-author.(CARDINAL)145799; North Carolina.Office of Archives and History.(CARDINAL)140911;
Foreword -- Introduction -- Roads -- Bridges -- Inland navigation -- Canals -- Inlets -- Railroads -- Steam navigation -- Epilogue -- Index.Examines state-funded transportation improvements from the early years of the nineteenth century to the start of the Civil War. Individual chapters are devoted to roads, bridges, inland navigation, canals, inlets, railroads, and steam navigation.
Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics); Transportation; North Caroliniana.;
Available copies: 16 / Total copies: 20
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Navigating at sea / by Rice, Dona,author.(CARDINAL)643248;
Second star to the right -- By land, by sea -- Early navigation -- Navigation now -- Straight on till morning -- STEAM challenge."How did sailors long ago know how to get from here to there? They needed smarts, bravery, and tools of navigation! Many of the tools used then are stilled used in some form today. Of course, modern technology allows navigation to be even more precise. With the right tools, there doesn't seem to be anywhere people cannot go!"--K to grade 3.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Navigation; Navigation; Seafaring life; Ocean travel;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Hudson-Fulton celebration : catalogue of an exhibition held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art commemorative of the tercentenary of the discovery of the Hudson River by Henry Hudson in the year 1609, and the centenary of the first use of steam in the navigation of said river by Robert Fulton in the year 1807 ... New York, September to November, MCMIX. by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)(CARDINAL)147619; Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold,1880-1958.(CARDINAL)147712; Kent, Henry Watson,1866-1948.(CARDINAL)272739; Levy, Florence N.(Florence Nightingale),1870-1947.(CARDINAL)272738;
v. 1. Catalogue of a collection of paintings by Dutch masters of the seventeenth century / by W. R. Valentiner. - - v. 2. Catalogue of an exhibition of American paintings, furniture, silver and other objects of art, MDCXXV-MDCCCXXV / by Henry Watson Kent and Florence N. Levy.
Subjects: Catalogs.; Exhibition catalogs.; Painting, Dutch.; Art objects; Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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In search of the castaways [videorecording] / by Chevalier, Maurice,1888-1972.(CARDINAL)159248; Hyde-White, Wilfrid.; Mills, Hayley.; Sanders, George,1906-1972.(CARDINAL)766207; Stevenson, Robert,1905-1986.(CARDINAL)435081; Verne, Jules,1828-1905.Enfants du capitaine Grant.English.(CARDINAL)542006; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)340297; Walt Disney Productions.(CARDINAL)140420;
Director of photography, Paul Beeson ; special photographic effects, Peter Ellenshaw ; editor, Gordon Stone ; music composed by William Alwyn.Maurice Chevalier, Hayley Mills, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde White.Mary Grant has received a message in a bottle from her missing father, a sea captain. She enlists Jacques Paganel, a French geographer, Lord Glenarvan, owner of the Steam Navigation Company, and other searchers to rescue him as they travel the 37th parallel in South America and Australia.MPAA rating: G.DVD, region 1; full screen presentation (1.33:1); Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Children's films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Adventure and adventurers; Castaways; Search and rescue operations; Ship captains;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 13
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The merchant marine; "a necessity in time of war; a source of independence and strength in time of peace". / by Benson, William Shepherd,1855-1932.(CARDINAL)186359;
Early activities of Great Britain -- Colonial period in America -- After the Constitution of 1789 -- The whaling industry -- American packets and clippers -- Physical aspects of the vessel -- Steam navigation -- Government aid in the United States -- Other forms of government aid -- Necessity for direct aid -- America's persistent desire for a merchant marine -- The United States shipping board.
Subjects: Merchant marine; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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