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Robert Fulton - The Steamboat

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  • 1961-7-9

Returning to New York, Fulton again took up the challenge of steam navigation. A shipbuilder supplied a vessel 131 feet long and about 20 feet wide, with a draft of six and a half feet and a displacement of 160 tons. A pair of paddle wheels on the...

The Times of Ceylon Press

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  • 1961-10-1 - 1984-4-8

The Times of Ceylon Press

Russia's Second Astronaut put into Space Major Gherman Titov

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  • 1962-1-27

"Russia's second astronaut put into space" Photo shows: Major Gherman Titov, Russia's second astronaut to be put intp space. Major Titov, aged 26, married but with no children, orbited the earth 17 times during his journey made at a height of 160 ...

Daily Mirror

Russian Airliner Crash in Copenhagen

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  • 1957-8-24

Twenty-three people, 18 of them passengers, lost their lives when a Russian airliner nose-dived into Copenhagen harbour after hitting the land at Kastrup airport on its journey to Moscow. Our Keystone photo shows the tail of the wrecked aircraft b...

Keystone Press Agency Ltd.

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