Progress of the City of New-York, During the Last Fifty Years ...: A Lecture Delivered Before the Mechanics' Society at Mechanics' Hall, Broadway, on 29th December, 1851D. Appleton & Company, 1852 - 80 Seiten |
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Progress of the City of New-York, During the Last Fifty Years ...: A Lecture ... Charles King, Jr. Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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Seite 17 - The power of propelling boats by steam is now fully proved. The morning I left New York there were not, perhaps, thirty persons in the city who believed that the boat would ever move one mile an hour, or be of the least utility ; and while we were putting off from the wharf, which was crowded with spectators, I heard a number of sarcastic remarks.
Seite 18 - ... friends of useful improvements, you will have the goodness to publish the following statement of facts: "I left New York...
Seite 19 - Having employed much time, money and zeal, in accomplishing this work, it gives me, as it will you, great pleasure to see it fully answer my expectations. It will give a cheap and quick conveyance to the merchandise on the Mississippi, Missouri and other great rivers, which are now laying open their treasures to the enterprise of our countrymen ; and although the prospect of personal emolument has been some inducement to me, yet I feel infinitely more pleasure in reflecting on the immense advantage...
Seite 79 - With our growth in wealth and in power, I see no abatement in those qualities, moral and physical, to which so much of our success is owing ; and, while thus true to ourselves, true to the instincts of freedom, and to those other instincts which, with our race, seem to go hand in hand with Freedom, — love of order and respect for law (os law, and not because it is upheld by force), — we must continue to prosper.
Seite 20 - Stevens first employed her as a passenger boat between this city and New Brunswick, and finally conceived the bold purpose of sending her round to Philadelphia by sea, and he executed it successfully. His son, Robert L. Stevens, went round with the boat in the month of June, 1808. A fierce storm overtook them. A schooner in company was driven off to sea, and was absent many days ; but the Phoenix...
Seite 18 - AMERICAN CITIZEN": SIR: — I arrived this afternoon at four o'clock, in the steamboat from Albany. As the success of my experiment gives me great hopes that such boats may be rendered of great importance to my country, to prevent erroneous opinions and give some satisfaction to the friends of useful improvements, you will have the goodness to publish the following statement of facts.
Seite 27 - This astonishing velocity is considered here as merely possible. It is probable that it may not in practice be convenient to exceed twenty or thirty miles an hour.
Seite 19 - On Thursday, at nine o'clock in the morning, I left Albany, and arrived at the Chancellor's at six in the evening. I started from thence at seven, and arrived at New York at four in the afternoon : time, thirty hours ; space run through, one hundred and fifty miles, equal to five miles an hour. Throughout my whole way, both going and returning, the wind was ahead. No advantage could be derived from my sails. The whole has therefore been performed by the power of the steam-engine. I am, sir, your...
Seite 27 - But there remains another important point of view in which the improvement demands the attention of the general government ; the celerity of communication it would afford with the distant sections of our wide extended empire is a consideration of the utmost moment. To the rapidity of the motion of a steam carriage on these railways, no definite limit can be set.
Seite 30 - The extent, variety, and value of Mr. RL Stevens's labours and inventions in mechanics should have more fitting commemoration than can be given in any passing notice by one unskilled, as is the writer of this, in the mechanic arts. Yet he cannot suffer this allusion to Mr. Stevens to go forth, without attempting at least to enumerate some of the many services and ingenious inventions and appliances of that gentleman in steam, in gunnery, and in mechanics. From the time when a mere boy, in...