FOOTNOTES:
[35] This cut is taken from the plate of the engine of the Red Rover, manufactured by Boulton and Watt, given in the last edition of Tredgold on the Steam Engine.
[36] Appendix I., on Marine Boilers, by J. Dinnen; Tredgold on the Steam Engine, second edition.
[37] Tredgold on the Steam Engine, Appendix, I. p. 171.
[38] Engines on a very large scale constructed upon this principle are said to be in process of construction for an iron steam-vessel of great tonnage, which is in preparation for the New York passage. It is said that the cylinders of these engines will be one hundred and twenty inches in diameter.
[39] A patent was subsequently taken out for these by Mr. Galloway. Mr. Field did not persevere in its use at the time he invented it. It has, however, been more generally adopted since the date of Galloway's patent.
[CHAP. XIV.]
AMERICAN STEAM NAVIGATION.
STEAM NAVIGATION FIRST ESTABLISHED IN AMERICA.—CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH LED TO IT.—FITCH AND RUMSEY.—STEVENS OF HOBOKEN.—LIVINGSTONE AND FULTON.—EXPERIMENTS ON THE SEINE.—FULTON'S FIRST BOAT.—THE HUDSON NAVIGATED BY STEAM.—EXTENSION AND IMPROVEMENT OF RIVER NAVIGATION.—SPEED OF AMERICAN STEAMERS.—DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM AND EUROPEAN STEAMERS.—SEA-GOING AMERICAN STEAMERS.—AMERICAN PADDLE-WHEELS.—LAKE STEAMERS.—THE MISSISIPPI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.—STEAMERS NAVIGATING IT.—THEIR STRUCTURE AND MACHINERY.—NEW ORLEANS HARBOUR.—STEAM TUGS.