Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ENTURY little vessels attracted great attention, and the problem of constructing shipsthat could cross the ocean by steam power began to be studied. In 1819, theSavannah was fitted with engines and crossed the Atlantic, using both steampower and sails, but the vessel did not prove a success, and
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ENTURY little vessels attracted great attention, and the problem of constructing shipsthat could cross the ocean by steam power began to be studied. In 1819, theSavannah was fitted with engines and crossed the Atlantic, using both steampower and sails, but the vessel did not prove a success, and her engines were taken out the following , it was not until 1833that a vessel steamed all theway across the Atlantic; andthis ship, the Koyal William, aCanadian craft of four or fivehundred tons, was able to makethe trip from Quebec to Graves-end on the Thames only bystopping for coal at Pictou,Nova Scotia, and Cowes nearPortsmouth, England. The first steamships to crossthe ocean without recoalingwere the Sirius and Great West-ern, which arrived in New Yorkthe same day, April 23, 1838,the former vessel having sailedfrom London and the latterfrom Liverpool. This achieve-ment on the part of these twowooden craft, neither one capa-ble of carrying more than sevenThe New York Courier and. ROBERT FULTON. hundred tons, created a great said, in its issue of April 24, 1838 : — What may be the ultimate fate of this excitement — whether or not theexpense of equipment and fuel will admit of the employment of these ves-sels in the ordinary, packet service — we cannot pretend to form an opinion;but of the entire feasibility of the passage of the Atlantic by steam, as faras regards safety, comfort, and dispatch, even in the roughest and mostboisterous weather, the most skeptical man must now cease to doubt. The employment of steamships in the regular packet service was assuredin 1839, when Samuel Cunard founded the famous English line that stillbears his n
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