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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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he had constructed an enginein 1801 that gave fairly good results for manu-facturing purposes, he was called on the nextyear to construct an engine of g inchescylinder by 36 inches stroke, for a boat of 80feet long and 18 feet beam, built in Kentuckyfor Capt. James McKeever, U. S. N., and Louis■Valcourt, and floated to New Orleans, La. Be-fore the vessel was completed the river hadfallen so much as to leave the vessel high anddry on shore. The engine and boiler weretaken out and placed in a saw-mill, where theywere in use until the mill was destroyed by fire.It would seem as though Oliver Evans by thisunfortunate accident was robbed of the creditof having the first successful steamboat in op-eration nearly five years before the Clermontwas placed on the Hudson River. In 1804 heconstructed for the city of Philadelphia a ma-chine for dredging the slips of the city. Themachinery was fitted in place on a large scow,30 feet long by 12 feet beam, and was driven by TYPES or MARINE ENGINES.
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1. Engines nf tlic Kus.sian twiii-scriw Sliiinii.r Sinolciisk. 2. Engines of II. M. S. LancnstiT. STEAM VESSELS a stern-wheel that was operated by a smallsteam-engine. It was driven down the Schuyl-kill River to the Delaware River, and up thelatter river, in all some 14 or 15 miles. Robert Fulton.— After the withdrawal ofFitch from tlie activities of steam navigation,and the death of Rumsey, there does not seemto have been that mania for the applicationof steam to navigation. It languished for atime, but not long: for Robert R. Livingston ofNew York was granted by the New York legis-lature the exclusive privilege of navigating thewaters of the State with a vessel propelled bysteam. Livingston was a man of wealth, andhad a taste for mechanics. He was associatedwith John Stevens and Nicholas J. Rooseveltin experiments with a steamboat that year, but(he results were unsatisfactory. Other trialswere made tlie ne.xt year with another vessel,but with no better success. The grant by theSta

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