The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-12-12
THE PROGRESS OF
THE 10TH CENTURY.
Wonderful Advancement in Means Of
L0e0motiOn Since Fulton Sailed his
Steamboat to the Present day.
BY Malcolm ]. Itichards, ph.

have passed has seen So much advances
ment In the arts and sciences Other
centuries have witnessed progress for
man, who was cropping after better
things hundreds of years ago. has never
refrigerated, but, whatever the future
may have In store, 1t Is still safe to say
that coming historians viii give to the
present century the credit for having
achieved more in the Improvement OF
the race than any Of its predecessors.
century that has given to the
world such poets, such scientists and
such inventors as the nineteenth, cans
mol be robbed of its prestige
What a chasm lies between the last
year of the eighteenth century and the
last year of the nineteenth The world
was then 100 days In diameter. but that
time diameter has now disappeared. A
hundred years ago it required more
than four months to convey Il thought
from any point 10 It's Hntipodes. while
1t now arrives at one end of the earth
almost as soon as il leaves the other.
To-day II "A person desires to travel
from one end of the world to the other,
he can do So In perfect comfort and Will
be REQUIRED 10 spend but a compare
lively short space= Of time
At the close, OF the eighteenth cen
turV our forefathers had made little
more progress in the matter of rapid
ronyevanca than had the first man who
vat upon a horse, padded a canoe or
rallied II boat.
II was IN t7g3 that Fulton first turned
hia attention ia the subinrt Of steam
navipatton and aix Years later he
ln,ngnd his hnat ON The seine He ex
rooted greaf resuIta from thfa craft
nm IL Ink tho moment II Touched M
g,ata SIN tho int,a,,tnr ,yas not dis=
rnnrared AGAIN ana again he CON
strncta.d lilo boats and in same cases he
,,a,, M "a 5,aTata tharn ,,tccesafuItv
mn II ,,saa not uutu Is07 hat no nay
I,nt,t Ito i,,,,antinr
,rtI,= - ,,btcb ~. rallaa m. f,ler
,nnnt ,Vae hmm al a sbtnvard ON me
-, pi,,.,,. T., NJ, VII fttv ana lie
No. ~, Min ncc,t,od on Sngnst ~
I'M 9gna ma,s ma Inc Hudson Ia Al.
hony n ran,,ired iuat tbirtv-tvvn
6ai,y. ,rhfs va Tho haginuInp or
staaun na,5,gafiou and from thai day
iha advancement In the art of shin
=6uildlng has never ceased
Tho drst ncenn going vessel 10 be
driven nv steam was The Savannah.
which mad In Atlantic trip eighty
ge',,s ,tsa In fh. remorlfahle time Of
twenfv-six days hut the real era of
lraaresa In fransatiautir navigation
#lf1 not oDcn until 1910 when the first
regulnr line Of Atlantic steamships was
tunururated
The ,,innrer in tbiq vast ocean trntllc
yns tba britannia. which was one Of a
Meet of four wooden ships with side
,,bn.ls I'M nor ,unenranrr In Roston
.ft.t havini made the trim across the
,cenn in the unpreecdonted time of
'uurtoeu DAYS and eight hours, created
almost MS profound n sensation as the
=;rcat Eastern did later.
Tn uuepr. old side wheel steamships
# this time were used until 1862. when
the China the first vessel to be pro
oellcd by a screw. was put on From
hat dny the proErrsS In ocean naViga-
ion has heen ga phenomenal that yes
sells like the Oceanic or the Kaiser WI
helm der Crosse no longer attract at
,entian and II is considered an inordl-
nate waste Of time to spend more than
six days in making the trip from one
side Of the Atlantic to the other.
ON LAND
What has been done during the past
century ON the sea. however, has also
been done on land 1t Is true that there
were railroads in the eighteenth century
hut as the steam engine had not then
heeu invented they were necessarily
very primitive. II was not until 1902
that the first progressive step wasmade
At that time Richard TreVithick took
out "A patent in England for high
pressure engine adapted to motion ON
roads and twelve years later George
Stephenson hunt his first engine for the
'
For more than Il dozen years these
engines were used but never as a mo-
tive power for railroads, In lS2S the
Liverpool and Manchester Company
was chartered 1t had been the lnten=
uuns of the corporation to USE horses
as Il means of lucomotion. but when
George stephenson persuaded them that
II would be possible to construct a loco
motive that would carry more than
three times its own weight. they gave
him permission to test his invention on
their road. Stephenson placed the con
tract IN the hands OF his nephew, Rob
trt Stephenson. Ir and In October
1879 the new engine. the Rocket made
its first trip ii more than met the eN-
pectntinns of the inventors and the rail
Rad managers for while il weighed
proved its ability to draw forty four
toms M The rate OF fourteen miles an
hour
In the sprtug OF 1870 Horatio Allen.
n member Of the American compauv
NM mo ar These engines on II Track
buI}t of henlnck ttmbers and strnp rails
and ran II himself M a good RAJ. ~
su.pd for six miles amid the cheers Of
"A large and Thoroughly amazed crowd
Of monument railroad and business men
II WINS Aliens iisa TO mako MS. 80 mo
nnthrnrifs conf far fuel and I'M, l,Iua
of that product for steam nurpnses yyos
Tins deGisiyely shown nj This time
How railroad, have dsv.Ione1 sine,
the DAYS Of 1870 nil the word knows
Tho first strn toward the electric rai
wnv wns taken nv "A Vermont bincL
smith Thomas Dayenport Who dsviss3
a ,ndimentn,v electric motor which 10
anrIi.l T., ~ .i.t.t,ic ra, ,,,,r,,i,.,a ~,
battsri.s cnr,i.5 unon 4, ~ tSqt a.,
a NM circulnr. eIectris