Download or read book The Inventor's Advocate, and Journal of Industry, Vol. 3 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Inventor's Advocate, and Journal of Industry, Vol. 3: A British and Foreign Miscellany of Science, Inventions, Manufactures, and Arts; July 4-December 26, 1840 Some opposition will, no doubt, be offered on the general introduction of large iron ships, which enable steam to completely supersede sail ing-vessels, by those who have large investments in wooden property, but there is no cause for alarm. Foreign enterprise will compel this country to keep pace with the march of improvement, both in the naval and mercantile marine. 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.