The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . chieved by GeorgeStephenson in engines built from 1814 to steamboat liad been suggested by numerouswriters and engineers, and, after many attempts,was made a practical success by John Fitch inthe United States about 1785, by John Stevensin 1804-9 and commercially by Fulton, Great Britain, after many early failures. Mil-ler and Symmington and Bell, step by step, at-tained permanent success and by 1830, the dateof the first
The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . chieved by GeorgeStephenson in engines built from 1814 to steamboat liad been suggested by numerouswriters and engineers, and, after many attempts,was made a practical success by John Fitch inthe United States about 1785, by John Stevensin 1804-9 and commercially by Fulton, Great Britain, after many early failures. Mil-ler and Symmington and Bell, step by step, at-tained permanent success and by 1830, the dateof the first transatlantic steamship voyages, thoseof the Cirius and the Great Western, all civ-ilized countries were employing the Ste.\.m Vessels. Meanwhile the elements of economy becamerecognized and steam-pressures rose from thetwo to seven pounds above the atmosphere ofWatts time to 25 or 30, about 1850, and to 100and upward to occasionally 200 at the end of the19th century; the ratio of expansion of thesteam increasing in siinilar ratio. The speeds ofengine-piston also gradually increased fromabout 100 feet per minute, at the beginning, to.
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