True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 110
laughing at him. ROBERT FULTON m Now, said Robert Fulton, after he had studied all aboutthese other boats, why can I not take a steam engine andinstead of making it work a ducks foot, or pump in andout a stream of water, or work oars like men, all of whichhave been afailure, whycan I not,he said… … JAMES WATTCame to think of the Power of Steam by observing the lid of his Mothers TeaKettle bobbing up and down by the escaping Steam. He had also studied engineering while in Europe, and he hadalso studied navigation and written a book on the subject ofrunning boats on canals, which was then a…
