. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Contemporary View of Fulton's Steamboat (see also p. in). The .North River after her reconstruction in 1807-08, with leeboards and figurehead omitted. From a watercolor said to have been made by Simeon De Witt under the supervision of the North River's engineer. {Smithsonian photo 37g77.) Sandy Hook to Philadelphia in the summer of 1808 the double cylinders were replaced by a single cylinder 24 inches in diameter and a fly\\ heel was added to the engine. The Phoenix was under construction soon after Fulton returned from Europe with the engin
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Contemporary View of Fulton's Steamboat (see also p. in). The .North River after her reconstruction in 1807-08, with leeboards and figurehead omitted. From a watercolor said to have been made by Simeon De Witt under the supervision of the North River's engineer. {Smithsonian photo 37g77.) Sandy Hook to Philadelphia in the summer of 1808 the double cylinders were replaced by a single cylinder 24 inches in diameter and a fly\\ heel was added to the engine. The Phoenix was under construction soon after Fulton returned from Europe with the engine made for him by Watt in 1806; the third steam engine that Britain allowed to be exported; which Fulton used in the Clermont. As a result of having the English engine Fulton was able to complete and test his boat a short time before Stevens could fit out the Phoenix and therefore obtained a monopoly of steam naviga- tion in New York waters. Ste\"ens sent the Phoenix to Philadelphia by sea, making her the first steamboat to navigate in American coastal waters, and \-ery generously gave credit to Fulton as the first to apply paddle wheels to a steamboat and the first to produce a useful vessel, in spite of his own lengthy pioneering work with steam propulsion. Stevens had primary interest in the screw propeller, but his inability to build a good engine with the tools and -ivorkmen avail- able in the United States had caused him to turn to paddle wheels in the Phoenix. The Phoenix, which had been employed as a packet between Philadelphia and Trenton since her arrival on the Delaware River in 1808, was wrecked in 1814 near Trenton, New Jersey. The model shows a steamboat having side paddle wheels in wheel bo-xes protected fore and aft by short overhanging guards, the wheels slightly forward of midlength, a straight keel, stem curved and raking, with small gammon knee head, an upright post, and a round tuck, and an upper-and-lower transom square stern. The entrance is moderate
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