A history of the growth of the steam-engine . Many of the distinguishedspectators gave letters to Fitch certifying his success. Fitchnow went to Virginia, where he succeeded in obtaining a 238 THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. patent, IsTovember 7,1787, and then returned to ask a patentof the General Government. A controversy with Rumsey now followed, in whichFitch asserted his claims to the invention of the steamboat,and denied that Rumsey had done more than to revive thescheme which Bernouilli, Franklin, Henry, Paine, andothers, had previously proposed, and that Rumseys steam-boat was not made until
A history of the growth of the steam-engine . Many of the distinguishedspectators gave letters to Fitch certifying his success. Fitchnow went to Virginia, where he succeeded in obtaining a 238 THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. patent, IsTovember 7,1787, and then returned to ask a patentof the General Government. A controversy with Rumsey now followed, in whichFitch asserted his claims to the invention of the steamboat,and denied that Rumsey had done more than to revive thescheme which Bernouilli, Franklin, Henry, Paine, andothers, had previously proposed, and that Rumseys steam-boat was not made until 1786. The boiler adopted in Fitchs boat of 1787 was a pipe-boiler, which he had described in a communication to thePhilosophical Society, in September, 1785. It consisted(Fig. 68) of a small water-pipe, winding backward and for-ward in the furnace, and terminating at one end at thepoint at which the feed-water was introduced, and at theother uniting with the steam-pipe leading to the condenser was similarly constructed. Rumsey.
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