Great movements, and those who achieved them (1882)
Nicoll, Henry James · New York, Harper & Bros. · leaf 445
he triumph of Fulton,Colonel John Stevens, of Hoboken, had a steam-vessel, whichhe named the Phoenix, ready for trial. As the monopoly ofsteam-navigation in the State of New York had been securedto Livingston and Fulton, the Phoenix was shut out from theHudson, and was therefore taken round by sea… … ROBERT FULTON. BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLE.GE OF LIBERAL ARTS LIBRARY Henry Bell and the Cometh 437 very rapidly. R. L. Stevens, the son of John Stevens, sug-gested many valuable improvements in their construction, someof the early vessels made by him attaining what was then theunprecedented speed of…
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