A history of the growth of the steam-engine . Fio. 77.—Fultons Experiiuents. building for Fulton and Livingston their first boat, onLIsle des Cygnes, in the Seine. In planning this boat, Ful- A French inventor, a watchmaker of Tr^voux, named Desblancs, hadalready deposited at the Conservatoire a model fitted with chaplets. 254 THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. ton had devised many different methods of applying steamto its propulsion, and had made some experiments to de-termine the resistance of fluids. He therefore had beenable to calculate, more accurately than had any earlier in-ventor, the relative
A history of the growth of the steam-engine . Fio. 77.—Fultons Experiiuents. building for Fulton and Livingston their first boat, onLIsle des Cygnes, in the Seine. In planning this boat, Ful- A French inventor, a watchmaker of Tr^voux, named Desblancs, hadalready deposited at the Conservatoire a model fitted with chaplets. 254 THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. ton had devised many different methods of applying steamto its propulsion, and had made some experiments to de-termine the resistance of fluids. He therefore had beenable to calculate, more accurately than had any earlier in-ventor, the relative size and proportions of boat and ma-chinery. The author has examined a large collection of Fultonsdrawings, among which are sketches, very neatly executed,of many of these plans, including the chaplet, side-wheel,and stern-wheel boats, driven by various forms of steam-engine, some working direct, and some geared to the pad-dle-wheel shaft. Figs. 77 and 78 are engraved fromtwo of these sheets. The first represents the methodadopted by Fulto
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