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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steam navigation. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steamboats , Hudson River (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steinberger , Albert Barnes 1840 -1894 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stevens , John 1749 -1838 (search)
Stevens, John 1749-1838
Inventor; born in New York City, in 1749; graduated at King's College (now Columbia University) in 1768; and studied law, but never practised.
Seeing John Fitch's steamboat on the Collect in New York in 1787, he became interested in the subject of steamboat navigation, and experimented for nearly thirty years. He unsuccessfully petitioned the legislature of New York for the exclusive navigation of the waters of the State.
He built a propeller in 1804—a small open boat worked by steam.
It was so successful that he built the Phoenix, a steamboat completed soon after Fulton and Livingston had set the Clermont afloat.
The latter having obtained the exclusive right to navigate the waters of New York, Stevens placed his boats on the Delaware and Connecticut rivers.
In 1812 he published a pamphlet urging the United States government to make experiments in railways traversed by carriages propelled by steam, and proposed the construction of a railway for such
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stevens , Robert Livingston 1787 -1856 (search)
Stevens, Robert Livingston 1787-1856
Engineer; born in Hoboken, N. J., Oct. 18, 1787; son of John Stevens, the inventor.
At the age of twenty years he built a steamboat with concave water-lines, the first application of the wave-line to ship-building.
He discovered the utility of employing anthracite coal in steam navigation in 1818, when coal was about to become an article of commerce.
In 1822 he first substituted the skeleton wroughtiron for the heavy cast-iron
Stevens's iron-clad floating battery. walkingbeam, and in 1824 first applied artificial blast to the boiler furnace.
In 1827 he introduced the hog-frame for steamboats to prevent their bending in the centre.
Mr. Stevens began the first steam ferriage between New York and the New Jersey shores in 1816, and was the inventor of the T rail for railroads.
He was a projector of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, and its president for many years.
About 1815 he invented an improved bomb for the naval service.
In 1842 he