A history of the growth of the steam-engine . e will come when people will travel in stagesmoved by steam-engines from one city to another, almostas fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour. ... A car-riage will start from Washington in the morning, the pas-sengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia,and sup in New York the same day. . Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and STEAM-LOCOMOTION ON RAILROADS. I57 there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Missis-sippi, as predicted years ago. In 1804, Evans applied one of his engines in the trans-portation of
A history of the growth of the steam-engine . e will come when people will travel in stagesmoved by steam-engines from one city to another, almostas fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour. ... A car-riage will start from Washington in the morning, the pas-sengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia,and sup in New York the same day. . Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and STEAM-LOCOMOTION ON RAILROADS. I57 there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Missis-sippi, as predicted years ago. In 1804, Evans applied one of his engines in the trans-portation of a large flat-bottomed craft, built on an orderof the Board of Health of Philadelphia, for use in clearingsome of the docks along the water-front of the city. Mount-ing it on wheels, he placed in it one of his 5-horse powerengines, and named the odd machine (Fig. 47) OruktorAmphibolis. This steam di-edging-machine, weighingabout 4,000 pounds, was then propelled by its engine fromthe works, up Market Street, around to the Water-Works, and. Fia. 47.—Evanss Orufctor Amphibolis, 1804 then launched into the Schuylkill. The engine was thenapplied to the paddle-wheel at the stern, and drove thecraft down the river to its confluence with the Delaware. In September of the same year, Evans laid before theLancaster Turnpike Company a statement of the estimatedexpenses and profits of steam-transportation on the commonroad, assuming the size of the carriage used to be sufficientfor transporting 100 barrels of flour 50 miles in 24 hours, Evanss prediction is less remarkable than either that of Darwin orthat of the yenerable Mother Shipton, given in the 158 THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. and placed in competition with 10 wagons drawn by 5horses each. In the sketch above given of the Oruktor Amphibo-lis, the engine is seen to resemble that previously wheel, A, is driven by a rod depending from the endof a beam, ££, the other end of which is supported at £1by the frame,
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