Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1930, Page 120

[.HE HONOR OF INVENTING THE FIRST PRACTICAL STEAMBOAT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO ROBERT FULTON, ALTHOUGH THE |DEA D¢D> NOT ORIGINATE WITHHIM. FOR YEARS MEN HAD BEEN EXPERM- MENTING WITH STEAMBOATS AND MANY DIFFERENT TYPES HAD EEEN DESIGNED:. MosT OF THESE DESIGNS RE- MAINED ON PAPER BUT A NUMBER OF STEAMBOATS WERE BUILT AND RUN WITH VARYING DEGREES OF | SUCCESS BEFORE FULTON BLILT HIS FAMOUS "CLERMONT *. .u 1784 RUMSEY DEMONSTRATED | A STEAMBOAT, FORCED THROUGH | THE WATER BY STEAM-DRIVEN | OARS,TO GEORGE WASHINGTON AT BATH, VIRGSNIA . i STERN-WHEEL STEAMBOAT BUILT BY SAMUE)L. MOREY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE IN 1794 MADE A RUN FROM HARTFORP TO NEW YORK.THIS BOAT MADE FIVE MILES MR, ———————— '—lE INVENTION OF THE FIRST PRACTICAL STEAM ENGINE BY JAMES WATT, A SCOTCHMAN,IN 1765 PLACED A NEW SOURCE OF " POWER AT MANS DISPOSAL . DRIVEN BY THE EJECTION OF WATER AT THE STERN BY A STEAM PUMP, LATER |HE WENT TO ENG - LAND WHERE HIS PLANS WERE CUT SHORT BY HIS DEATH N 1792, —* !EARNHILE, ENGLISH INVENTORS WERE EXPERIMENTING WITH STEAMBOATS. THE "CHARLOTTE DUNDAS" (B0oVE), A SMALL PADDLE- WHEELER, RAN SUCCESSFULLY IN 1802. NOTE THE STEE@NG WHEEL . / ‘:l 1 1 / 1/4?/"/ , , ldmummm e AVING LEARNED TO EMPLOY THIS NEWLY-HARNESSED FORCE TO OPERATE PUMPS AND TURN MACHINES, MEN SOLGHT TO USE IT TO PROPEL WAGONS AND BOATS. .N 1786 JOHMN FITCH, A NATIVE OF CONNECTICUT, INVENTED A STEAMBOAT PROPELLED BY ME - CHANICAL PADDLES, IN 1788 ONE OF FITCH'S BOATS RAN SUCCESS - FULLY ON THE DELAWARE. —* ..mu ERICSSON OF SWEDEN 1S GIVEN CREDIT FOR THE INVENTION (1836) OF THE SCREW PROPELLER.. HOWEVER, JoHN STEVENS OF HOBO- KEN,NEW JERSEY, BUNTA BOAT DRIVEN BY A PROPELLER IN 1804 I.HAT MANY-SIDED GENIUS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN COLLABORATED WITH JAMES RUMSEY OF MARYLAND 1M PLANNING A BOAT 7O BE DRIVEN BY PUMPING WATER IN AT THE Bow ANDP FORCING IT OUT THROUGH TNE & : .lTCH LATER EXPERIMENTED IN NEW YORKR WHTM A PADDAE-WHEEL STEAMER. HE WAS THE BUTT OF MUCH RIDICULE AND IN 1799, THE UNHAPPY INVENTOR , IMPOVERIS HED AND DISHEARTENED, KILLED WIMSELE ST CURIOUS OF THE EARLY EXPERIMENTAL STEAM CRAFT WAS THE DREDGE INVENTED BY OLIVER. EVANS OF PHILADELPMIA THAT RAN BOTH IN THE WATER AND ON LANP. —————70 82 conTiNuED,