Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Captain Montgery” in alphabetic letter N, entry group 1, entry navigation-acts of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
...aps, trace the origin of iron vessels to an invention of Demetrius Poliorcetes when he was besieging Rhodes, 304 years before the present era.
After some other interesting historical researches, Captain Montgery pointed out that the chief obstacle to successful shipbuilding in iron at that time (1823-24) was due to the lack of suitable machinery for working and shaping the material.
This, he said, could no...
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