A treatise on the improvement of canal navigation : exhibiting the numerous advantages to be derived from small canals, and boats of two to five feet wide, containing from two to five tons burthen : with a description of the machinery for facilitating conveyance by water through the most mountainous countries ...
A 1796 treatise by Robert Fulton, published by Taylor, on improving canal navigation with small boats and inclined-plane machinery for mountainous terrain, written for engineers and canal promoters. Its engraved plates show aqueducts, a tunnel mouth with a boat-lift, cranes, and detailed mechanical parts drawn in fine line and sepia tone, offering a designer clear structural diagrams and atmospheric landscape scenes.
