The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . it aside as uulikely to be ofany practical value. Numerous Americans havealso sought to contest the palm with Fulton in thisgreat matter, but on the whole without the
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . it aside as uulikely to be ofany practical value. Numerous Americans havealso sought to contest the palm with Fulton in thisgreat matter, but on the whole without these, John Fitch and James Rumsey wereindeed authors of plans, which, if their engines hadnot been capable of further improvement, might havehad a partial and limited success. When the im-provement of the steam engine by Watt becamefamiliarly known, the first person, moreover, whoentered upon inquiry as to the proper mode of ap-plying it in navigation, was John Stevens of Hoboken,N. J., who began his researches in 1791. After nineyears study he became the associate of ChancellorRobert R. Livingston and Nicholas Roosevelt, andamong the persons whom they employed was thecelebrated European engineer, Brunei. But they,too, were unsuccessful, and only secured exclusiveprivileges on the waters of the state of New York,which grant of power was given them without anydifficulty, it being believed that their scheme was. ^ - sP^feSfhtoat. little short of madness. In 1801 Livingston becameU. 8. ambassador to France, and on his arrival out,found Fulton domiciled with Joel Barlow. Fultonforthwith communicated to him the scheme whichhe had laid before Earl Stanhope in 1798, and Liv-ingston offered to provide the funds necessary fornew experiments, and to enter into a contract forPultons aid in introducing the new method of travelinto the United States, provided the experimentswere successful. The experiments were made atPlombieres, a French watering place, in 1802. It OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 10
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