A history of the growth of the steam-engine . tracted littleattention, notwithstanding the fact that its success hadbeen witnessed by the committee of the Academy and bymany well-known savants and mechanics, and by oflScers onNapoleons staff. The boat remained a long time on theSeine, near the palace. The water-tube boiler of this vessel(Fig. 79) is still preserved at the Conservatoire des Arts etMetiers at Paris, where it is known as Barlows boiler. Barrlow patented it in France as early as 1793, as a steamboat-boiler, and states that the object of his construction was toobtain the greatest p
A history of the growth of the steam-engine . tracted littleattention, notwithstanding the fact that its success hadbeen witnessed by the committee of the Academy and bymany well-known savants and mechanics, and by oflScers onNapoleons staff. The boat remained a long time on theSeine, near the palace. The water-tube boiler of this vessel(Fig. 79) is still preserved at the Conservatoire des Arts etMetiers at Paris, where it is known as Barlows boiler. Barrlow patented it in France as early as 1793, as a steamboat-boiler, and states that the object of his construction was toobtain the greatest possible extent of heating-surface. Fulton endeavored to secure the pecuniary aid and thecountenance of the First Consul, but in vain. Livingston wrote home, describing the trial of this steam- 256 THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. boat and its results, and procured the passage of an act bythe Legislature of the State of New York, extending amonopoly granted him in 1798 for the term of 20 yearsfrom April 5, 1803, the date of the new law, and extending. Fig. 79.—Barlows Wster-Tube Boiler, 1T9S. the time allowed for proving the practicability of driviaga boat four miles an hour by steam to two years from thesame date. A later act further extended the time to April,1807. In May, 1804, Fulton went to England, giving up allhope of success in France with either his steamboats or historpedoes. Fulton had already written to Boulton & Watt,ordering an engine to be built from plans which he fur-nished them ; but he had not informed them of the purposeto which it was to be applied. This engine was to have asteam-cylinder 2 feet in diameter and of 4 feet stroke. Theengine of the Charlotte Dundas was of very nearly thesame size ; and this fact, and the visit of Fulton to Sym-mington in 1801, as described by the latter, have been madethe basis of a claim that Fulton was a cojiyist of the plansof others. The general accordance of the dimensions ofhis boat on the Seine with those of the Polacca of Roo
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