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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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run a line of steamships from Philadelphia, Pa., to Liverpool. It will be noted that this was at the beginning of the period when iron shipbuilding in the United States began to increase, and the compound marine engine was coming into favor. The company had built in 1873–4 the Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. These proved to be good, staunch, and serviceable vessels for the line, though only of average speed under good conditions. They subsequently passed into the hands of the International Navigation Company, which absorbed the Inman line in 1886. The present American line is the result of an Act of Congress of 1892, providing with other conditions that certain foreign-built steamships should receive American register on condition that steamships of corresponding tonnage were built in the United States. This led to the City of Paris and the City of New York receiving American register in 1893,and their names being then abbreviated to Paris and New York. Contracts were then made v^
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INTERIOR DECORATION OF A MODERN STEAMSHIP. STEAMBOATS — STEARIC ACID with the William Cramp Ship and Engine Building Company for the Saint Paul and the Saint Louis, they having the first quadruple expansion engines built in the United States for the Atlantic service. These vessels ran to Southampton and Cherbourg. They are elegantly fitted and furnished in their passenger accommodations, are well patronized by the American traveling public, and have shown on more than one occasion that they are possessed of more than average high speed. In January 1903 the American and Red Star lines were consolidated with four British lines as the International Mercantile Marine Company. Coastwise Steamships. — The Robert Fulton, built in 18ig, was the pioneer in the coastwise trade with steam vessels, and ran between New York and the island of Cuba from 1820 to 1825, when sold to the Brazilian government. There were no steam vessels running coastwise from the latter date till 1832, when a small steamboat

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