Our Great Benefactors Short Biographies of the Men And Women Most Eminent in L
Our Great Benefactors Short Biographies of the Men And Women Most Eminent in L
Drake Samuel Adams
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Successful application of steam to navigation is unquestion- ably due to the persevering efforts of Robert Fulton ; because, while Fitch and others had the same idea that he had, and were pursuing it in their own way, he outstripped them in the race by superior genius. Many had already tried and failed where Fulton at last succeeded, so that the world gives no more than its just reward to his patient and unremitting labors when it places Robert Fulton's name upon the roll of benefactors, " not ...for an age, but for all time. " Yet how simple the problem seems to us in the light of present knowledge ! To so apply the power of the steam-engine to a shaft as to drive a water-wheel, this was all. And how to do it was puzzling the inventors of Watt's and Fulton's day, inventors who had already settled it in their own minds that the thing was entirely feasible. So indeed it seemed ; for the steam-engines of Watt and Boulton were already doing wonders ROBERT FULTON. ROBERT FULTON. 413 in the way of mechanical labor, and were slowly opening the eyes of inventors to the greater possibilities that lay in the future of steam power.
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