. A sketch of the origin and progress of steam navigation from authentic documents. an engineer, in con-junction with Chancellor Livingstone, commenced to build a steamboat in America, in the building yard of Charles Brown, on the east(Hudson) river: she was launched in the spring of 1807, and her 1807. machinery was completed in August, 1807 ; after which a trip wasmade with her, in which she attained a speed of nearly five miles anhour. Fulton, perceiving that her paddles entered too deeply intothe water, had them removed and placed nearer to the centres of thewheels. An announcement soon af
. A sketch of the origin and progress of steam navigation from authentic documents. an engineer, in con-junction with Chancellor Livingstone, commenced to build a steamboat in America, in the building yard of Charles Brown, on the east(Hudson) river: she was launched in the spring of 1807, and her 1807. machinery was completed in August, 1807 ; after which a trip wasmade with her, in which she attained a speed of nearly five miles anhour. Fulton, perceiving that her paddles entered too deeply intothe water, had them removed and placed nearer to the centres of thewheels. An announcement soon afterwards appeared in the newspapers ofthe day, that the steam boat built by Messrs. Livingstone and Fultonwould depart in the afternoon of a day fixed, from New York to Al-bany. Mr. Fulton went this voyage, and upon his return publishedan account of it as follows :— To the Editor of the American Citizen. SlE, I ARRIVED this afternoon at four oclock in the steam boat fromAlbany. As the success of my experiment gives me great hopes v^tusmiAjr ^jr^ ?« •? u^-t^ /• 6 <j. I ul a STEAM NAVIGATION. 61 that such boats may be rendered of great importance to my country, prevent erroneous opinions, and give some satisfaction to the friendsof useful improvements, you will have the goodness to publish thefollowing statement of facts. I left New York on Monday at one oclock, and arrived at Cler-mont, the seat of Chancellor Livingstone, at one oclock on Tuesday ;time twenty-four hours, distance one hundred and ten miles. OnWednesday I left the Chancellors at nine in the morning, and ar-rived at Albany at five in the afternoon; distance forty miles, timeeight hours, equal to nearly five miles an hour, &c. (Signed) Robert Fulton. This vessel was named the Clermont, after the residence of Chan-cellor Livingstone. Her dimensions were,—length 130 feet, breadth\Q^ feet, depth 7 feet; the boiler was 20 feet long, 7 feet deep, and8 feet broad. The steam cylinder was 24 inches in di
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