 ... started into very general notice in a form in which it could not possibly be attended with much success. A sort of mania began to prevail, which indeed has not yet entirely subsided, for impelling boats by steam-engines. . . . For a short time a passage-boat,...  Transactions of the American Philosophical Society - Page 92by American Philosophical Society - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Cadwallader David Colden - Technology & Engineering - 1818 - 192 pages
...Dr. Franklin proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate action of the steam upon the water. Many attempts to simplify the working of the engine,...into a rotatory motion, were made. For a short time a passage boat, rowed bv a steam engine, was established between Bordentown and Philadelphia; but it... | |
 | Thompson Westcott - Inventors - 1857 - 432 pages
...Dr. Franklin proposed to force the boat forward by the immediate application of steam upon the water. Many attempts to simplify the working of the engine, and more to dispense with the beam in converting the vibratory into a rotary motion, were made. For a short time,... | |
 | Thompson Westcott - Fiction - 1857 - 440 pages
...Dr. Franklin proposed to force the boat forward by the immediate application of steam upon the water. Many attempts to simplify the working of the engine, and more to dispense with the beam in converting the vibratory into a rotary motion, were made. For a short time,... | |
 | James D. McCabe - United States - 1871 - 694 pages
...Franklin proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate application of the steam upon the water. Many attempts to simplify the working of the engine,...means of dispensing with the beam in converting the libra/ory into a rotatory motion, were made. For a short time, a passage-boat, rowed by a .steam-engine,... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - United States - 1884 - 652 pages
...Franklin proposed to force forward the boat by the immediate application of the steam upon the water. Many attempts to simplify the working of the engine,...means of dispensing with the beam in converting ''the librafory into a rotatory motion, were made. For a short time, a passage-boat, rowed by a steam-engine,... | |
 | Henry Adams - United States - 1889 - 468 pages
...to prevail, which indeed has not yet entirely subsided, for impelling boats by steam-engines. . . . For a short time a passage-boat, rowed by a steam-engine,...Bordentown and Philadelphia, but it was soon laid aside. . . . There are indeed general objecN^? «w; ^S^^^^jIS^ -AW a^r ^-0? ^ic* fr^S*****^ i. r>> _ O^ ^-t\'~... | |
 | Henry Adams - United States - 1889 - 466 pages
...which indeed has not yet entirely subsided, for impelling boats by steam-engines. . . . For a short tim a passage-boat, rowed by a steam-engine, was established...Bordentown and Philadelphia, but it was soon laid aside. . . . There are indeed general objections to the use of the steam-engine for impelling boats, from... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - Political Science - 1904 - 580 pages
...yet entirely subsided, for impelling boats by steam-engines . . . For a short time a passage boat, rowed by a steam-engine, was established between Bordentown and Philadelphia, but it was soon laid aside." Here, then, comes the most remarkable part of the report. "There are indeed general objections to the... | |
 | United States - 1904 - 584 pages
...yet entirely subsided, for impelling boats by steam-engines . . . For a short time a passage boat, rowed by a steam-engine, was established between Bordentown and Philadelphia, but it was soon laid aside." Here, then, comes the most remarkable part of the report. "There are indeed general objections to the... | |
 | Florian Cajori - Mathematics - 1928 - 196 pages
...been forgotten ; but the subject afterwards started into very general notice, in a form in which it could not possibly be attended with much success....means of dispensing with the beam, in converting the vibratory into a rotary motion, were made. For a short time a passage-boat, rowed by a steam-engine,... | |
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