A history of the growth of the steam-engine . ted with furnaces for red-hot shot. Some of her gunswere to be discharged below the water-line. The estimatedcost was $320,000. The construction of the vessel was authorized by Con-gress in March, 1814 ; the keel was laid June 20, 1814, andthe vessel was launched October 29th of the same year. The Fulton the First, as she was called, was consideredan enormous vessel at that time. The hull was double, 156feet long, 56 feet wide, and 20 feet deep, measuring 2,475tons. In the following May the ship was ready for herengine, and in July was so far compl
A history of the growth of the steam-engine . ted with furnaces for red-hot shot. Some of her gunswere to be discharged below the water-line. The estimatedcost was $320,000. The construction of the vessel was authorized by Con-gress in March, 1814 ; the keel was laid June 20, 1814, andthe vessel was launched October 29th of the same year. The Fulton the First, as she was called, was consideredan enormous vessel at that time. The hull was double, 156feet long, 56 feet wide, and 20 feet deep, measuring 2,475tons. In the following May the ship was ready for herengine, and in July was so far completed as to steam, ona trial-trip, to the ocean at Sandy Hook and back—53 miles-—in 8 hours and 20 minutes. In September of the same 262 THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. year, with armament and stores on board, the same routewas traversed again, the vessel making 5^ miles an vessel, as thus completed, had a double hull, eachabout 20 feet longer than the Clermont, and separated by aspace 15 feet across. Her engine, having a steam-cylinder. Fig. 82.—Launch of the Fulton the First, 1804. 48 inches in diameter and of 5 feet stroke of piston, wasfurnished with steam by a copper boiler 22 feet long, 12feet wide, and 8 feet high, and turned a wheel between thetwo hulls which was 1^ feet in diameter, and carried floats or buckets 14 feet long, and with a dip of 4feet. The engine was in one of the two hulls, and theboiler in the other. The sides, at the gun-deck, were 4 feet10 inches thick, and her spar-deck was surrounded by heavymusket-proof bulwarks. The armament consisted of 3032-pounders, which were intended to discharge red-hotshot. There was one heavy mast for each hull, fitted withlarge latteen sails. Each end of each hull was fitted witha rudder. Large pumps were carried, which were intendedto throw heavy streams of water upon the decks of the ene-my, with a view to disabling the foe by wetting his ord-nance and ammunition. A submarine gun was to havebeen carried at each
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