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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
ted 212 guns, principally 32-pounders, which were considered heavy guns in those days; they were manned with more than 5,600 men, and provided with furnaces for heating shot and arrangements for extinguishing fires. They were constructed by D'Arcon, a French engineer, and were first employed in the attack of September 13, 1782, and sustained the heaviest fire of the British during nearly the whole of that day without apparent injury, but were at last set on fire by hot shot. In 1813, Robert Fulton submitted a plan to the United States government for the construction of a large floating-battery, which was accordingly built; she was 156 feet in length, 56 feet beam, and 20 feet deep, propelled by a single wheel 16 feet in diameter; her sides were very thick, and she is said to have attained a speed of five miles an hour against the tide. During the Crimean war the French constructed several floating-batteries, which were sent into the Black Sea, and rendered very efficient servic
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
We now come to a man whom success crowned, Fulton. Perhaps in the fullness of the meed of praise appropriation of all the glory is amusing. Fulton visited Symington about 1801 or 1802, and theyted the heat in its desolate condition. Robert Fulton was born in Little Britain, Lancaster Coun stream. She reached Albany in 32 hours. Fulton invented the outside bearing of the paddle-whewith the facts. Charles Brown had built for Fulton, between 1806 and 1812, six steamboats of lengland and America with the screw-propeller what Fulton did in America and Bell in England for the padave produced. When the project was revived by Fulton, Stevens, and Bell, in 1807, it was upon the HBlossom rock, Harbor of San Francisco. Robert Fulton published his work on this subject in New The scheme caused great alarm in England, and Fulton was persuaded into the service of the British.ssel by a span extending between two boats. Fulton experimented with firing guns under water in N[13 more...]