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Scientific American, Vol. 101, No. 13 (September 1909) (1909)

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ecticut, sailed from Hartford hour. to New York, with Chancellor Livingston and others The twelfth steamboat, built by Col. John Stevens, on board, in 1794. It is one of the estimable qualities of Robert Fulton was a 25-foot flat-bottomed boat, which was driven by The seventh steamboat, by Fitch,… … Rumsey's boat was propelled by a steam engine and pump which drew in water through of practical commercial steamboat navi- thus became the first steamship to the bottom and discharged it in a jet at the stem. Made four miles an gation on the Hudson River. There is make an ocean voyage. hour in a…

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