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Page 58
... steamboat and set to work to make one . The record of Fitch's life is something of a tragedy . At the best he was an unhappy man and was always close to poverty . As a young man he had left his family because of unhappy domestic rela ...
... steamboat and set to work to make one . The record of Fitch's life is something of a tragedy . At the best he was an unhappy man and was always close to poverty . As a young man he had left his family because of unhappy domestic rela ...
Page 59
... Steamboat building . " But in spite of all his difficulties Fitch produced a steamboat , which plied regularly on the Delaware for several years and carried passengers . " We reigned Lord High Admirals of the Delaware ; and no other ...
... Steamboat building . " But in spite of all his difficulties Fitch produced a steamboat , which plied regularly on the Delaware for several years and carried passengers . " We reigned Lord High Admirals of the Delaware ; and no other ...
Page 64
... steamboat had seldom been out of his mind , but lack of funds and the greater urgency , as he thought , of the submarine prevented him from working seriously upon it . In 1801 , however , Robert R. Livingston came to France as American ...
... steamboat had seldom been out of his mind , but lack of funds and the greater urgency , as he thought , of the submarine prevented him from working seriously upon it . In 1801 , however , Robert R. Livingston came to France as American ...
Page 65
... steamboat , the Charlotte Dundas , on the Forth and Clyde Canal , and Livingston had been granted a renewal of his monopoly of the waters of New York . Fulton arrived at New York in 1806 and began the construction of the Clermont , so ...
... steamboat , the Charlotte Dundas , on the Forth and Clyde Canal , and Livingston had been granted a renewal of his monopoly of the waters of New York . Fulton arrived at New York in 1806 and began the construction of the Clermont , so ...
Page 66
... steamboat was a success . The boat was then laid up for two weeks while the cabins were boarded in , a roof built over the engine , and coverings placed over the paddle- wheels to catch the spray - all under Fulton's eye . Then the ...
... steamboat was a success . The boat was then laid up for two weeks while the cabins were boarded in , a roof built over the engine , and coverings placed over the paddle- wheels to catch the spray - all under Fulton's eye . Then the ...
Expressions et termes fréquents
afterwards Albany American balloon became began Benjamin Franklin better boat Boston Boulton and Watt brothers built Canal CHAPTER Charles Goodyear chine Clermont cloth colonies Colt Congress cotton gin Curtiss discovery Dwight Goddard dynamo early Edison electricity Eli Whitney England experiments factory farm father flying Haven Henry Howe's hundred idea improved industry invention inventor James Watt John Stevens labor Langley later light Livingston locomotive London Lowell machinery manufacture mechanical ment miles Miller mills Morse motor newspapers Oliver Evans partners Patent Act Pennsylvania Philadelphia ploughs practical principle printing produced profits railway reaper Robert Fulton rubber Samuel Samuel Colt SAMUEL F. B. MORSE says sewing machine sold soon South spinning steam engine steamboat story success telegraph thousand dollars tion took turn United Washington Whitney's wings wire Wright York young