A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 287
ship was ready for herengine, and in July was so far completed as to steam, ona trial-trip, to the ocean at Sandy Hook and back—53 miles-—in 8 hours and 20 minutes. In September of the same 262 THE MODERN STEAM-ENGINE. year, with armament and stores on board, the same routewas traversed again, the… … Fig. 82.—Launch of the Fulton the First, 1804. 48 inches in diameter and of 5 feet stroke of piston, wasfurnished with steam by a copper boiler 22 feet long, 12feet wide, and 8 feet high, and turned a wheel between thetwo hulls which was 1^ feet in diameter, and carried floats or buckets 14 feet…
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