The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . about two years on the Delaware enterprises failed, however, for want of financial the same time, too, John C. Stevens of Hoboken, NewJersey, built the steamboat Phoenix, to ply between New Yorkand New Brunswick, New Jersey. This venture probably wouldhave succeeded, had not the sole privilege of navigating the watersof New York by steam been previously granted to Robert had designed a steam-propelled boat,^ called the Cler-mont, which started on her first trip up the Hudson August 7, 1
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . about two years on the Delaware enterprises failed, however, for want of financial the same time, too, John C. Stevens of Hoboken, NewJersey, built the steamboat Phoenix, to ply between New Yorkand New Brunswick, New Jersey. This venture probably wouldhave succeeded, had not the sole privilege of navigating the watersof New York by steam been previously granted to Robert had designed a steam-propelled boat,^ called the Cler-mont, which started on her first trip up the Hudson August 7, 1807, and reachedAlbany in thirty-twohours. A few weeksafterward she beganregular trips between1, New York and Albanyas a passenger andfreight boat. The fareto Albany was sevendollars — about twicethe price of a round-trip ticket on one of the fine Hudson Riverday steamers to-day. In time steam was applied also to ocean navigation. As earlyas 1819 the steamship Savannah crossed the Atlantic to England,-sailing much of the time by the wind and using steam only when. The Clermont. 1 Fulton designed his boat not for purposes of transportation, but for carryingand discharging explosive torpedoes, such as are now used in naval failed in his efforts to induce both American and French authorities toutilize his scheme, he made a partnership with Robert R. Livingston, then min-ister to France, to use his proposed steamboat for commercial purposes; it wasthrough Livingston that he was enabled to get the franchise for navigating thewaters of New York State. The hull of the Clermont was built on East River,New York City; the engines were made in Birmingham, England. The boat wasone hundred and thirty feet long and eighteen feet wide. Her paddle wheels werefifteen feet in diameter. 2 Just before the Savannah made her trip to England, an English gentlemanliad published a book in which he believed he had demonstrated by unanswerablelogic that no steam vessel could ever cross t
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