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Excerpt from The Annals of Albany, Vol. 9 While we are rejoicing over the great achievement of the day in the transmission of intelligence by electricity between distant continents and our own, it may be interesting to note the advantages of our predecessors in this respect, in less progressive times. The City Records in this volume embrace the period between the years 1726 and 1731. At that time and. for many years afterwards, it will be found that in cases of emergency, when it was necessary to have speedy communication with New York, the authorities still sent off their despatches by a canoe. The Notes from the Newspapers embrace about the same period of time a century later, when the winged messenger of news was the steam boat. These no longer boasted of going through by daylight, they now made the passage in a little more than nine hours. 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.
Excerpt from The Annals of Albany, Vol. 6 A host of ingenious men in England with Watt at their head, were now lending their energies to perfect the steam engine, with a view to applying it to manufacturing pur poses. The great improvements introduced by Ark wright and Cartwright in spinning and weaving cotton, gave employment to a great number of engines and their demand for various purposes was increasing. The Ame rican experimenters were engaged in applying it to the pro pulsion of boats and land carriages. Among the latter were Fitch, Rumsey, Evans, Stevens, Livingston and Fulton. 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.