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A new invented machine, cleansing docks, or deepning [sic] rivers
Summary
Print shows a man manipulating a large floating device with pulleys and a scoop attached, driven by horse-power, for dredging around docks and in rivers.
Title from related article in The Pennsylvania Magazine.
Engraved for the Pennsylv'a Magazine.
Illus. in: The Pennsylvania Magazine: or American Monthly Museum. Philadelphia : Printed and sold by R. Aitken, 1775 (May), p. 206.
Reference copy in LOT 7007.
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Date
01/01/1775
Contributors
Aitken, Robert, 1735-1802.
Source
Library of Congress
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