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Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in 1807-8

Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in 1807-8

Walker, William

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ISBN10: 1150037121
ISBN13: 9781150037122
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.37 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...power, and ultimately introduced Miller to Wm. Symington, with whose aid Mr. Miller commenced and carried out those experiments (in the years 1788-89) which have justly entitled him to the honour of being the first to originate the present system of steam navigation.f It is much to be regretted that since the deaths of Mr. Miller and Mr. Symington, statements have been made in which the entire merit of first establishing steam navigation is claimed, on the one hand, for Miller, by his eldest son, in a paper published in the ' Edinburgh Philosophical Journal' for July 1825; and on the other for Symington, by Richard Bowie, in his pamphlet published in 1833; whereas these two gentlemen appear to be inseparably connected with the first introduction of this grand application of steam. As far as it is possible to reconcile the conflicting statements, the See ' Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland, ' by Sir John Dalrymple, Bart. f For fuller account of Miller and Symington's experiments see ' Memoir of Symington.' facts may be briefly stated thus. Patrick Miller was the first to successfully propel vessels by paddle-wheels moved by manual labour. He then, in conjunction with William Symington, applied steam to move these paddle-wheels, and constructed two steamboats, which were publicly tried, on the Forth and Clyde Canal, in the years 1788-89. Although these trials triumphantly proved the practicability of steam navigation, further improvements were required before a really successful steam-boat could be said to have been constructed. At this point, unfortunately, Mr. Miller, having already spent large sums of money in his experiments, let the matter drop; but Symington, about ten years afterwards, under the patronage of Lord Uundas, succeeding in...

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