The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ^ - sP^feSfhtoat. little short of madness. In 1801 Livingston becameU. 8. ambassador to France, and on his arrival out,found Fulton domiciled with Joel Barlow. Fultonforthwith comm
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ^ - sP^feSfhtoat. little short of madness. In 1801 Livingston becameU. 8. ambassador to France, and on his arrival out,found Fulton domiciled with Joel Barlow. Fultonforthwith communicated to him the scheme whichhe had laid before Earl Stanhope in 1798, and Liv-ingston offered to provide the funds necessary fornew experiments, and to enter into a contract forPultons aid in introducing the new method of travelinto the United States, provided the experimentswere successful. The experiments were made atPlombieres, a French watering place, in 1802. It OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 105. had occurred to Fulton to make his wheels with aset of paddles revolving upon an endless chain, ex-tending from the stern to the stem of his boat. Andin this conception he had the germ of the steamer ofto-day. In 1803 he made a working model of his in-tended boat, which he deposited with a commissionof French At the same time he began tobuild a vessel sixty-six feet long and eight feet wideto which an engine was adapted, andthe trials with it were so satisfactoryas to leave little doubt of final suc-cess. Measures were immediatelytaken to construct a steamboat on alarge scale in the United States, andas the proper engine could not begotten from the workshops of thatcountry, or of France, an order forone was lodged with Watt & Boultonof England, without specifying theobject to which it was to be applied,sketches, etc., being furnished byFulton; and the engine so construct-ed was the type of many of thosenow used in the steam navigationof both Europe and America. Livingston,
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