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Title: Treatise on marine and naval architecture, or, Theory and practice blended in ship building. Illustrated with more than 50 engravings
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Griffiths, John W. (John Willis), 1809-1882
Subjects: Naval architecture
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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, and with the exceptionof an amendment in dimensions,and theaddition of guards, she is a fair repre-sentation of the first steamboat thatplied the waters of the Hudson. Weshall give Mr. Fultons instructions forbuilding this boat, as appended to thedraft, and directed to Mr. Livingston,in his own words :— As you will have more and greaterwaves than the North river boat, thewheel guards must be so constructedthat the head of the wave shall notstrike under them. I would finishthem as here delineated: they are 4feet from the water ; A A, keelsons forthe boiler, 8 feet 6 inches from outsideto outside ; B B, keelsons for the ma-chinery, 7 feet from outside to outside ;C, hatchway to let in the boilers, 8feet 4 wide, 21 feet long. See Figurethe 1st. ROBERT FULTON. October 22d, 1808. John R. Livingston, Esq. We cannot but look upon the firstefforts of Mr. Fulton at steamboat building with admiration ; possessing amind in every respect adequate to thegigantic enterprise that lay before him ;
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Image: Steam Boat Raritan 1808. MARINE AND NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. 323 wasting health and life in midnightthought and painful study; dreaming of science in the broken slumbers ofan exhausted mind, he steadily pressedon toward the goal of all his hopes,and in the year 1816 had constructedand supervised the building of 15 steamvessels during a period of 10 years,the longest of which was 175 feet. It wan Id have required a vision ofmore than ordinary strength to have looked through the vista of time for adistance commensurate with less thanhalf a century to a period when thespeed of steamboats upon the sameriver on which Fulton harnessed histrackless steed, should have increasedfrom 5 to 20 miles per hour, and whenthe motive power (versus pressure onthe boiler) should be increased fromthat of 8 to 50 pounds per squareinch ; we say that the mind capableof grasping and keeping pace with suchwondrous results, in so short a time,must be expansive indeed ; but whenwe remember that not only this, butfar greater achievements belong

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