A history of the growth of the steam-engine . aving adjustable boat of 1798 is stated by some writers to have beenmade by him on joint account of himself, Livingston, andStevens. Roosevelt, some years later, was again at work,associating himself with Fulton in the introduction ofsteam-navigation of the rivers of the West. In 1798, the Legislature of New York passed a law giv-ing Chancellor Livingston the exclusive right to steam-navigation in the waters of the State for a period of 20years, provided that he should succeed, within a twelve-month, in producing a boat that should steam
A history of the growth of the steam-engine . aving adjustable boat of 1798 is stated by some writers to have beenmade by him on joint account of himself, Livingston, andStevens. Roosevelt, some years later, was again at work,associating himself with Fulton in the introduction ofsteam-navigation of the rivers of the West. In 1798, the Legislature of New York passed a law giv-ing Chancellor Livingston the exclusive right to steam-navigation in the waters of the State for a period of 20years, provided that he should succeed, within a twelve-month, in producing a boat that should steam four milesan hour. Encyolopffidia Americana. A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat, J. H. B. Latrobe,ISTl. STEAM-NAVIGATION. 251 Livingston did not succeed in complying with the termsof the act, but, in 1803, he procured the reenactment of thelaw in favor of himself and Robert Fulton, who was thenexperimenting in France, after having, in England, watchedthe progress of steam-navigation there, and then taken apatent in this Eotert Fulton. RoBEET Fulton was a native of Little Britain, Lancas-ter County, Pa., bom 1765. He commenced experimentingwith paddle-wheels when a mere boy, in 1779, visiting anaunt living on the bank of the Conestoga. During hisyouth he spent much of his time in the workshops of hisneighborhood, and learned the trade of a watchmaker ; buthe adopted, finally, the profession of an artist, and exhib-ited great skill in portrait-painting. While his tastes were Vide Life of Fulton, Eeigart. 252 THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. at this time taking a decided bent, he is said to have visitedfrequently the house of William Henry, already mentioned,to see the paintings of Benjamin West, who in his youthhad been a kind of prot6ge of Mr. Henry ; and he mayprobably have seen there the model steamboats which exhibited, in 1783 or 1784, to the German travelerSchopff. In later years, Thomas Paine, the author of Common Sense, at one time lived with Mr. H
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