A history of the growth of the steam-engine by Thurston Robert Henry 1839-1903

Author:Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Steam-engines -- History
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company, [1886,c1884]

STEAM-NAVIGATION.

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cylinder 18 inches in diameter, and a new boat. The first vessel was 45 feet long and 12 feet wide ; the new boat was 60 feet long and of but 8 feet breadth of beam. The first boat (Fig. 69) had paddles worked at the sides, with the motion given the Indian paddle in propelling a canoe ; in

FIG. 70.—John Fitch, 1788.

the second boat (Fig. 70) they were similarly worked, but were placed at the stern. There were three of these paddles. The boat was finally finished in July, 1788, and made a trip to Burlington, 20 miles from Philadelphia. When just reaching their destination, their boiler gave out, and they made their return-trip to Philadelphia floating with the tide. Subsequently, the boat made a number of excursions on the Delaware River, making three or four miles an hour.

Another of Fitch's boats, in April, 1790, made seven miles an hour. Fitch, writing of this boat, says that ''on the 16th of April we got our work completed, and tried our boat again ; and, although the wind blew very fresh at the east, we reigned lord high admirals of the Delaware,

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