Demoine courier., 1854-07-06
HISTORY OF STEAM.

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Abou, $50 years b. c., Hero Of Al
%exandria, formed a toy which exhi,td
some of the powers of steam, and was
put in motion BY it.
A. ID. $40, A,henius. an architect, ar
ranged several cauldrors of water, each
covered with The wide bottom of a lea.
,hern tube, which rose to a narrow top,
with pipes extended TO the raf.ers Of the
adjoining building. A fire was kindled
beneath the cauldron, and the house
was shaken by the efforts of the steam
ascending the tubes.
In 1913. June 9Th, Blasco de Garay
tried a sseamhoa; Of 900 tuns with toll.
cradle success, at Barcelona. Spain. |,
consisted Of a cauldron of boiling wa,
Ter. and a movable wheel on each side
Of the ship. l. was laid aside as ion
practicable. A handsome present, how.
ever, was made to Garay.
The frs, idea Of a steam engine in
England was IN the Marquis of Wor.
c~es'er's History of Inventions" pub,
lished in 1863.
In 1898 patents were granted to Save
ry for the first application Of The steam
engine.
In 1905 Newcomer. Cawley, and Sa.
very made the first steam engine in Eng.
land.
In 1896 Jonathan Hulls Sc, forth the
idea of steam navigation.
In 1869 James Watt made the first
perfect steam engine in England.
In 1878 Thomas Paine frs, proposed
This application in America.
In 1881 the Marquis Jouffroy con.
struc.ed a steamboat, on the Seine.
In 1889 VIM. SyIning,on made a voy.
age in one on the Forth and Clyde Ca
nal.
In 1902 this experiment was repeated.
In 1882 Rumsey propelled a boat by
steam at New York.
In 1857 John Fitch. OF Philadelphia,
navigaied boa. by q steam engine on
The Delaware river.
In 1893 Robert Fulton frs. began TO
apply his attention to steam.
In 1893 Oliver Evans, a native OF
Philadelphia constructed a locomotive
steam engine 10 travel on a turnpike
road.
We have been requested to publish
The above brief history of the early eff.
forts of steam engine inventors, as being
useful for future reference by our read
ers. We cheerfully do so with the nee.
essary corrections TO make it truly his.
ioricas.
Hero's steam engine was like a Bar.
ker Water Wheel driven By steam-a
rotary. Ii was revived IS years ago in
this State. A book was published in
Leipsic in 1879. which described a ro.a.
ny steam engine like Hero's.
In 1915 Solomon De Caus. a French
engineer. published a work describing
the power of steam 20 force water. but
rot By an engine.
The claims Of Blasco Garay are not
entitled 10 much credit, as they were on
ly first given to the world in 1926, and
said to be from an old manuscript dis.
covered in the Archives al Simancas,
Spain.
In 1898. Branca. an Italian mathema-
%iician. propelled a wheel by a je. OF
steam from a boiler.
Before 5 yming,on made his expert
men,s he was engaged 6y Patrick Mil
Ter, of Delswinton, and made an engine
to propel a boat for that gentleman. who
published a pamphle. on the subject in
1897.
We were not aware before that Thorn.
as Paine was claimed as being q propo
ser Of steam navigation.
John Fitch propelled a boat by steam
on Collect Pond, in.this city, abou, the
date specified above. W. never read OF
heard of Rumsev doing so.
The irst permanently successful
steam engine in the world was that o
James Watt, in 1869; aud The frs, per
manently successful steamboat, for which
Wat, built the engine. vas that of Rob
ert Fulton, in 1907, in New York.
Scientific american.