Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . oods cheaply navigationand speedily to all parts of the earth. Steamships and railwayshave made the world one great market place. The problem of applying steam to navigation had long occu- Robertpied inventors, but the honor of making the steamship a successcommercially belongs to Robert Fulton. In the spring of 1807he launched his Clermont at New York, and in the autumn ofthat year the new water monster made its famous trip toAlbany. Transoceanic steam na
Medieval and modern times : an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time . oods cheaply navigationand speedily to all parts of the earth. Steamships and railwayshave made the world one great market place. The problem of applying steam to navigation had long occu- Robertpied inventors, but the honor of making the steamship a successcommercially belongs to Robert Fulton. In the spring of 1807he launched his Clermont at New York, and in the autumn ofthat year the new water monster made its famous trip toAlbany. Transoceanic steam navigation began in 1819 with 703 Fulton 704 Medieval and Modem Times Steadyincrease inthe size andspeed ofocean vessels the voyage of the steamer Savannah from Savannah to Liver-pool, which took twenty-five days, sails being used to help theengine. The Great ]Fester?i, which startled the world in 1838by steaming from Bristol to New York in fifteen days and tenhours, was a ship of 1378 tons, 212 feet long, with a dailyconsumption of 36 tons of coal.^ Now a commercial map ofthe world shows that the globe is crossed in every direction by. Fig. 182. The Savannah The SuezCanal com-pleted in definite routes which are followed by innumerable freight andpassenger steamers passing regularly from one port to another,and few of all these thousands of ships are as small as thefamous Great Western. The East and the West have been brought much nearertogether by the piercing of the Isthmus of Suez, which for-merly barred the way from the Mediterranean Sea to the 1 Compare this with the Litsitania, which had a tonnage of 32,500 tons,engines of 68,000 horse power, was 785 feet long, and carried a supply of over5000 tons of coal for its journey across the Atlantic, which lasted less than fivedays. A German vessel, the Imperator^ was launched in 1912, having a tonnageof over 50,000 tons. Expansion of Eiirope in the Nineteenth Century 70S Indian Ocean. This enterprise was carried out under thedirec
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