Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III.—1819-1838. The Savannah, the First Ocean Steamship, 1819.—David Napier's Enterprise, 1819- 22.—First Steamboats on the Missouri, 1819.—The Robert Fulton Steamship between New Orleans and New York, 1819. — Walk-in-the-Water, First Steamboat on Lake Erie, 1819.—First Steamboat on Lake Michigan, 1827.— First Ramsgate Steamboat, 1820.—First Steam-Vessels in the Royal Navy, 1820-23.—French Officers sent to United States to inquire about Steam- Vessels, etc., 1820.—First Steamboat on the Indus, 1820.—First Sea-going Steamboat for Hull, England, 1821.—First Steamboat Excursion from New York to Providence, 1821.—First Steamboat Line between Providence and New York, 1822.—David Gordon's Patent for Boxing Paddle-Wheels, 1822. —Table of Comparative Voyages of Sailing- and Steam-Vessels, 1822.— Number of Steamboats on American Waters, 1823.—Captain de Lisle proposes Screws to be applied to French Ships of the Line, 1823.—Delangue, of Paris, patents a Screw, 1824.—Steamer Enterprise goes from London to Calcutta, 1825.—Jacob Perkins's Propeller, 1825.—Samuel Brown's Canal Towing Company's Propeller, 1825.—Steamboat Speed on the Hudson, 1826.— Woodcroft's Screw, 1826.—Winter Steamboats between Philadelphia and New York, 1827.—The Atlas launched at Rotterdam, 1828.—The Swift, First Steamer in Turkey, 1828.—The Curacoa, 1828—The Steam-Brig New York, 1826.— Patten's Screw ; Copley's Screw ; Pettier's Screw, 1830.—First Steamboats on the Danube, 1830.—Temperance Resolutions of the Livingston Steam-Packet Company, 1829.—The Meteor, the First Ship of the Royal Navy to carry the Mails, 1830.—The Hugh Lindsay, First Steamer to navigate the Red Sea, 1830. Girard's Screw, 1831.—First Steamer to arrive at Chicago, 1831.—Woodcroft's Screw, 1832.—First Wrought-Iron Steamboat, 1832.—The Firebr... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.