. History and government of Pennsylvania. A supplement to Elementary American history and government by James Albert Woodburn and Thomas Francis Moran . oil. Inventions and Discoveries. John Fitch in 1786 contriveda boat with paddles which were driven by a steam engine. A similar boat plied be-tween Philadelphiaand Burlington forsome time. It wasfinally wrecked on anisland in the Dela-ware. Robert Fulton,who invented a more? practical steamboat,was born in Pennsyl-vania, and as a boymade paddle-wheeled boats driven on a pond on his fathersfarm, by boy-power. In 1801 Oliver Evans built a curiou
. History and government of Pennsylvania. A supplement to Elementary American history and government by James Albert Woodburn and Thomas Francis Moran . oil. Inventions and Discoveries. John Fitch in 1786 contriveda boat with paddles which were driven by a steam engine. A similar boat plied be-tween Philadelphiaand Burlington forsome time. It wasfinally wrecked on anisland in the Dela-ware. Robert Fulton,who invented a more? practical steamboat,was born in Pennsyl-vania, and as a boymade paddle-wheeled boats driven on a pond on his fathersfarm, by boy-power. In 1801 Oliver Evans built a curiousmachine which could travel either on water or on land, andwhich was a predecessorof both the steamboatand the automobile. In1831, Matthias Baldwinmade the first Americanlocomotive. BenjaminTilghman iavented theprocess of making paperfrom wood pulp by thesulphite process, in 1859, E. C. Knightdesigned and patented thefirst sleeping car. Manufactures. Afterthe War of 1812, and particularly after the discovery of abun-dant supplies of coal, Pennsylvania took the lead in the varietyand value of its manufactured products, Philadelphia for a. Erecting Siioj^ Haiiuvin LocomotiveWorks, PmL.^DELPHiA HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA 37 long time was the leading city in the country in this respect,and in the census of 1809 it was the only city in which manu-factures were reported separately. The value of the productsat that time was ten million dollars. In 1909, the value of themanufactured products of the city was $750,000,000, and of thestate $2,650,000,000. Twenty-three different industries eachproduced goods valued at more than $25,000,000. The five ofgreatest importance were steel works and rolling mills; foundriesand machine shops; blast furnaces; leather; and woolens,worsteds, and other manu-factures of wool. Iron and Steel. In1756, Pennsylvania wasspoken of as the mostadvanced of all the Ameri-can colonies in regard toits iron works. Steel wasfirst made about 1750,
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