A Short Treatise on the Application of Steam: Whereby is Clearly Shewn, from Actual Experiments, that Steam May be Applied to Propel Boats Or Vessels of Any Burthen Against Rapid Currents with Great Velocity. The Same Principles are Also Introduced with Effect, by a Machine of a Simple and Cheap Construction, for the Purpose of Raising Water Sufficient for the Working of Grist-mills, Saw-mills, &c. and for Watering Meadows and Other Purposes of AgricultureJoseph James: Chestnut-Street, 1788 - 26 pages |
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ABRAHAM SHEPHERD advantage affidavits annexed application of steam Berkeley County Berkely County brought into common burthen on board capable of performing CATO MOORE certificate CHARLES MORROW common and beneficial constructed boiler convinced county aforesaid day came Charles deponent different Assemblies entirely new Constructed Excellency General Washington exhibited expence external application Fitch force of steam Frederick-Town gentlemen of reputation GRIST MILLS half her burthen HORATIO GATES imperfect invented JAMES RUMSEY'S Steam JOHN KEARSLEY JOHN MORROW Joseph Barnes Justices LIBRARY VM 619 light and cheap lower cylinder machine is simple means capable Miers Fisher miles per hour navigation oath occupy a space opinion pamphlet Peace perfecting his Steam Philadelphia piston Potowmack river principles propelling boats prove raising water rapid rivers rate of three repaired ROBERT STUBBS RUMSEIAN SOCIETY RUMSEY'S Steam Boat Shepherds-Town Steam Engine THOMAS WHITE tons on board TRANSPORTATION LIBRARY VM trunk verily believe Virginia William Askew
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Page 1028 - ... stream of a river, sufficiently fast to be safe with a cargo of goods. This deponent is well convinced that the whole of Mr. RUMSEY'S machinery may be made for twenty pounds, nor will it occupy more room in a boat than four barrels of flour.
Page 1027 - Virginia, ss. (No. 7.) To whom it may concern. On application of Mr. James Rumsey and sundry other gentlemen, requesting my opinion, whether Mr. Fitch's or Mr. Rumsey's steam boat, agreeable to the present different plans of working each boat, would be of the greatest public utility; I have, at their importunities...
Page 1023 - Steam Boat, and had no small pleasure to see her get on her way, •with near half her burthen on board, and move against the current at the rate of three miles per hour, by the force of steam, without any external application whatever.
Page 1033 - I thought it my duty to mention what was in my memory, of your telling me that you had communicated your principle to General Washington, as I thought, tho' perhaps mistakenly, at the time your model and experiment were exhibited before the General; and with the approbation of the committee, wrote to the General on the subject: his answer now before me, is to this effect, that "at that time, September, 1784, nothing was intimated of steam: that the November following, in Richmond, you spoke to him...
Page 1013 - A short treatise on the application of steam ; whereby is clearly shewn, from actual experiments, that steam may be applied to propel boats, or vessels of any burthen, against rapid currents, with great velocity. The same principles are also introduced with effect, by a machine of a simple and cheap construction, for the purpose of raising water sufficient for the working of Grist Mills, Saw Mills, &c., and for watering meadows, and other purposes of agriculture. By James Rumsey, of Berkeley County,...
Page 1038 - Boiler upon entirely new Construction invented by himself is used with the greatest apparent probability of far Exceeding all others heretofore known, not only in point of Force but in the Smallness of the Quantity of Fuel necessary to generate the Steam. . •. He came to this City some months ago with Drafts and descriptions of his Several Inventions and communicated them to a number of Gentlemen here who Struck with the Simplicity of his several Contrivances and the great advantages with which...
Page 1016 - And my machine, with all its misfortunes upon its head, is abundantly sufficient to prove my position; which was, "that a boat might be so constructed, as to be propelled through the water at the rate of ten miles in an hour, by the force of steam; and that the machinery employed for that purpose, might be so simple and cheap, as to reduce the price of freight at least one half in common navigation; likewise, that it might be forced, by the same machinery, with considerable velocity, against the...
Page 1038 - As steam engines are now used in Europe not only for the purpose of raising water from mines of great depth, but for a variety of other mechanical purposes where a strong force is necessary and where water falls were formerly applied : we thought it advisable that James Rumsey should immediately go thither to secure to •himself any advantages which might result from an invention so extensively useful in that country, and he accordingly sailed in the month of May, in a vessel bound for London :...
Page 1032 - ... and in his opinion will make more steam than a five hundred gallon boiler in the common way : and from the observation he has made, has reason to believe, that six bushels of good coals will serve it for twelve hours. The Weight of the present machine is about seven hundred pound, and will not occupy more space than four flour barrels.