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An historical and explanatory dissertation on steam-engines and steam-packets; : with the evidence in full given by the most eminent engineers, mechanists, and manufacturers, to the select committees of the House of Commons; together with the committees' reports, distinguishing and defining safe and unsafe steam-engines ... comprising particulars of the fatal explosions of boilers ... with a narrative, by Isaac Weld, esq. of the interesting voyage of the Thames steam-yacht, from Glasgow, in Scotland, to Dublin and London