Steamboat

Examples

• No one could have been in direr poverty than he when the steamboat landed him in New York in 1869. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Before she had gone a quarter of a mile both passengers and observers on the shore were satisfied that the steamboat was a thoroughly practicable vessel. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The sailor with the black beard got out, and spoke to the steward of the Rotterdam steamboat, which was to start next morning. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was the first commercially successful steamboat ever made, as George Stephenson's was the first commercially successful locomotive. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A century has not dimmed Fulton’s fame, nor set aside his claim to be the practical inventor of the steamboat. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Earl was deeply interested, and encouraged the young American to persevere, but for the time Fulton left the steamboat to work out other problems. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The name of _Clermont_ was changed to the _North River_ the following spring, and the reconstructed steamboat continued in regular service on the Hudson for a number of years. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• John Stevens of New Jersey was also at work on a steamboat, and had in 1804 built such a boat at his shops, having a screw propeller and a flue boiler. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The building of a practicable steamboat had long been in his mind. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• William Henry, of Pennsylvania, tried a model steamboat on the Conestoga river in 1763. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Other men had worked over steamboats, but he reached the goal. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Symington and his fellow Scotchmen, Miller and Taylor, in 1788-89 also constructed working steamboats. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Other prominent Frenchmen made encouraging experiments on small steamboats--followed in 1784-86 by James Rumsey and John Fitch in America in the same line. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• At this place many stores and five steamboats fell into our hands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But Scottish waters, and the waters around other coasts of the British Islands, had been traversed by steamboats before this celebrated trip of the _Savannah_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Fulton, when in Paris, had experimented with models of steamboats, and had studied the records of what had already been done in that line. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Ward & Company, at that time the largest owners of steamboats on the Great Lakes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Bell's steamboat between Glasgow and Greenock in 1812 was followed by five others in 1814; and seven steamboats plied on the Thames in 1817. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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