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Title: Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
Subjects: Progress Inventions
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e half of the displacement; while in the Oregon, whose tonnage, atnormal draught, is 10,288, the hull percentage is 44.06, leaving a gain overthe wooden vessel of 611 tons to be applied to armor, armament, or equip-ment. Finally, the durability of the metal vessel, with adequate care, greatlyexceeds that of the wooden war steamer, whose average life was but 13 years. The creation of the steam machinery of navies has been the achieve-ment of the engineers of practically but three great nations. The daring ofFrance, the inventive genius of America, and the wide experience and soundjudgment of Great Britain, have united in this work. Our country has ledtime and again in the march of improvement; although our progress hasbeen fitful, since, more than a generation ago, we turned from the sea to thedevelopment of the internal resources of this continent, Limits of space per-mit but brief review of a history which has had its full share of triumphs,not only in battle, but over wave and wind.
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66 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY A contemporary authority states that, when British Admiral Sir JohnBorlase Warren ascended the Potomac River,, during the war of 1812, hisexpedition was reconnoitred by an American steamer. This appears to bethe first record of the use of such craft for military purposes. In 1814 theUnited States built the first steam war-vessel in the worlds history. Shewas called the Demologos, later the Fulton, and her completion marked truly,as her commissioners said, an era in warfare and the arts. She was^adouble-ended, twin-hulled floating battery of 2475 tons, carrying twenty 32-pdr. guns, protected by 4 ft. 10 in. of solid timber. She was driven by a sin-gle central paddle-wheel; her speed was o\ miles per hour; and she wasboth handy and seaworthy. France, in 1820, sent a commission to Americato report upon steam vessels of war ; and in 1830 the French had nine armedsteamers afloat and nine building. In 1821, the Comet, a small side-wheeler, KALEVI

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