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    History of Steam on the Erie Canal
    History of Steam on the Erie Canal
    History of Steam on the Erie Canal
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    History of Steam on the Erie Canal

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    "History of Steam on the Erie Canal" by anonymous begins in 1852 and tells readers all about the paths that were taken to improve travel and transportation on the canal. Steam power was the biggest element that characterized the industrial revolution. This book manages to take such a broad topic and succinctly explain it so anyone can understand it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 16, 2019
    ISBN4064066194178
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      History of Steam on the Erie Canal - Good Press

      Anonymous

      History of Steam on the Erie Canal

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066194178

      Table of Contents

      HISTORY OF STEAM

      ERIE CANAL.

      Screw Propellers from 1858 to 1862 .

      Screw-Tugs .

      Paddle-wheels and other Devices .

      Remarks .

      STEAM IN 1871 AND 1872.

      Screw Propellers .

      Paddle Wheels .

      Observe

      The trials of Steam in 1872 less Economical than in 1858 to 1862 .

      Years 1871 and 1872, as Published .

      Relations of Time—Twelve Years Ago and Now .

      Steam in 1872 Less Economical than Horses .

      Horse-Boat Times .

      Conditional Explanations .

      Canal Necessities .

      Summary .

      NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1873.

      NEW YORK:

      EVENING POST STEAM PRESSES, 41 NASSAU STREET, COR. LIBERTY.

      1873.

      With Respects of the Author,

      155 Broadway, N. Y.

      HISTORY OF STEAM

      Table of Contents

      ON THE

      ERIE CANAL.

      Table of Contents

      Screw Propellers from 1858 to 1862.

      Table of Contents

      During the maple sugar season of the spring of 1858, a well-to-do farmer, of western New York, whittled out a spiral or augur-like screw-propeller, in miniature, which he thought admirably adapted to the canal. He soon after went to Buffalo, and contracted for a boat to be built, with two of his Archimedean screws for propulsion by steam.

      Although advised by his builders to substitute the common four-bladed propellers, he adhered to his original design, and with one propeller at either side of the rudder—called twin-propellers—she was soon ready for duty. She is the vessel known to history as the Charles Wack.

      She carried three-fourths cargo and towed another boat with full cargo, and made the trip from Buffalo to West Troy in seven days, total time, averaging two miles per hour. But she returned from Troy to Buffalo, with half freight, in four days and sixteen hours, net time; averaging three and one-twelfth miles per hour, without tow.

      This initiated the series of steamers from 1858 to 1862, and, with others that soon followed, created a general enthusiasm in behalf of steam transportation, which led to a trip through the canal that fall, on a chartered steam-tug, by the Governor of the State, the Canal Board, and other notables, and with public receptions, speeches, &c., at different cities along the route.

      That boat was soon followed by the S. B. Ruggles, a first-class steam canal-boat, built by the Hon. E. S. Prosser, of Buffalo, with a first-class modern propeller, and with

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