He it was that opened the Danube to steam navigation by the destruction of the rocks at Orsova, known as the Iron Grates, and to him, too, Hungary owes the bridge over the Danube that unites its double capital of Budapesth and Ofen.
They waited for the rise of steam navigation on the Great Lakes and for the opening of the prairies.
It is, however, unnecessary here to venture upon the further history of steam navigation.
But Watt was indifferent to taking up the subject of steam navigation, as well as of steam locomotion.
An account of these is given by Bennet Woodcraft in his Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Steam Navigation, London, 1848.
By this time the successful voyage of Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, between New York and Albany, had demonstrated the possibilities of steam navigation.
The rights of steam navigation of New York waters which Livingston had obtained on the death of Fitch in 1798 had lapsed because of his failure to run a steamboat at the rate of four miles an hour, which was one provision of the grant.
Livingston, arrived, and the two men soon formed a friendship destined to have a vital and enduring influence upon the development of steam navigationon the inland waterways of America.
Some of these young officers subsequently obtained certificates as to their knowledge of steam navigation from Mr. Napier; and we understand that the Lords of the Admiralty did not lightly esteem credentials from such a source.
In the earlier days of steam navigation, and before it had been applied to Government ships, the Admiralty were without any school or dockyard where naval officers could be taught the principles and practice of the science.
From the time that Henry Bell's Comet appeared on the scene in 1812, until the present, the Clyde has occupied a pre-eminent position in the records of the progress of steam navigation.
It is at the head of steam navigation on the Putumayo, and it was here that Reyes' steamer Tundama was lost.
Above the Pongo, or rapids, the river is navigable only for very small craft, but below it forms the head of steam navigation.
Also, in steam navigation, the difference between the pitch of the propelling screw, and the space through which the screw actually progresses in the water, during one revolution.
Also, in steam navigation, the distance between two contiguous threads of the screw-propeller, is termed the pitch.
The action of paddle wheels, whether radial or feathering, will be more fully described in the chapter on Steam Navigation.
The great problem of steam navigation is the economy of fuel, since the quantity of fuel consumed by a vessel will very much determine whether she is profitable or otherwise.
Towards the close of the last century, a number of ingenious minds were in travail with the scheme of steam navigation.
Livingston and Fulton, right of steam navigation granted by New York, 112.
We did much towards the commencement of steam navigation, but we did not begin it.
The man to whom the credit belongs of introducing steam navigation is undoubtedly Mr Fulton of America.
The Americans have an idea that they are very far ahead of us in steam navigation, a great error which I could not persuade them of.
Even in the number and tonnage of their mercantile steam vessels they are not equal to us, as I shall presently show, nor have they yet arrived to that security in steam navigation which we have.
In the first place, their machinery is not by any means equal to ours; in the next, they have no sea-going steam vessels, which after all is the great desideratum of steam navigation.
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