A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 294
device brought forward long afterward as new,and frequently adopted. This boat was sufficiently success-ful to prove the practicability of making steam-navigation acommercial success ; and Stevens, assisted by his sons, built STEAM-NAVIGATION. 269 a boat which he named the Phoenix, and made the… … ■Stevens^a Twin-Screw Steamer, 1305. ingston, was used for a time between New York and NewBrunswick, and then, anticipating a better pecuniary return,it was concluded to send her to Philadelphia, to ply on theDelaware. At that time no canal offered the opportunity to makean inland passage; and in…
Steam-engines
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