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Staffordshire

Thomas Lewis

which received royal assent on 21 June 1737

which was built 1815-1819

with figures and horse drawn carriages

Boat sailed by aerostatic 'wings' mb-code 2592234 StaffordshirePlate 21 for the paper 'Sur un moyen de donner la Direction aux machines aerostatiques', by Comte de Galvez [Bernardo de Glvez y Madrid, Viscount of Galveston and Count of Glvez (1746 1786)], Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 74 part 2 (1784), pp. 469 470. The illustration shows the vessel under way with three pairs of 'sails' being operated manually. The papers states that these were inspired by 'the use birds make of their wings

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