This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...iron spears from her side every quarter of a minute. She was destroyed by an explosion of her magazine in 1829. The model of the original North River boats resembled that of a sloop or an immense skiff. They were at first decked only a short distance at the stem and stern, but afterward the whole length of the boat was ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...iron spears from her side every quarter of a minute. She was destroyed by an explosion of her magazine in 1829. The model of the original North River boats resembled that of a sloop or an immense skiff. They were at first decked only a short distance at the stem and stern, but afterward the whole length of the boat was decked. The engine was open to view. Away aft was a house very much like that of a modern Erie canal-boat, which was raised to cover the boiler and to serve as a shelter to the apartments for the officers, and it was in this part of the boat that the passengers were accommodated. As in the Clermont, the boiler was of the form usual in the Watt's engine, and was set in masonry. The wheels at first were without houses, and when the breeze was brisk the spray from them dashed aboard and made the boat wet. The cross-heads counected with the piston instead of the walkingbeam now in general use. The fuel used was wood, some of it cut from the public commons; and a correspondent writes to an Albany paper of those early days complaining bitterly of the enormous consumption of wood by the two steamers Fulton was then running. He placed the value at $5 a cord, and stated that the boats consumed thousands of dollars' worth per annum. The cost of fuel was then the principal item in the cost of running boats. At first it was $150 per trip; but Lackawanna coal, used first on the Car of Neptune in 1816, reduced the expense to $30, and this was regarded as the commencement of a new era in steam navigation. Fulton and Livingston had a mouopoly of the river for a few years; but in a short time the traffic was thrown open to the competition of all, and boats were built by different persons as fast as the trade of the river would warrant it. As speed was an impo...
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