Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . ^ had broken the boat in halfand carried the whole structure to the bottom of the river. He at once. ROBERT FULTONS FIRST STEAMBOAT. set to work to raise the machinery, devoting twenty-four hours, withoutresting or eating, to the undertaking, and succeeded in doing so, butinflicted upon his constitution a strain from which he never entirelyrecovered. The machinery was very slightly damaged, but it was neces-sary to rebuild the boat entirel}^ This was accomplished by July of thes
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . ^ had broken the boat in halfand carried the whole structure to the bottom of the river. He at once. ROBERT FULTONS FIRST STEAMBOAT. set to work to raise the machinery, devoting twenty-four hours, withoutresting or eating, to the undertaking, and succeeded in doing so, butinflicted upon his constitution a strain from which he never entirelyrecovered. The machinery was very slightly damaged, but it was neces-sary to rebuild the boat entirel}^ This was accomplished by July of thesame year, and the boat was tried in August with triumphant success, inthe presence of the French National Institute and a vast crowd of thecitizens of Paris. This steamer was very defective, but still so great an improvement 32 ROBERT FULTON. upon all that had preceded it, that Messrs. Fulton and Livingbton deter-mined to build one on a larger scale in the waters of New York, the rightof navigating which by steam vessels had been secured by the latter asfar back as 1798. Fulton returned to America and began building his boat. Every-body laughed at him and said it would be a failure, but he went on withhis work
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