Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — Growth of Steam. [ARTICLE]

Growth of Steam.

Steam was first used in making gas about 1798. Steam was first used to warm factories in 1806. Steam was first applied to driving looms in 1807. First steamboat on the Thames made trial trip in 1801. First steamer run on Hudson River by FSlton in 1807. Tbevethick built the first high-pres-sure engine in 1801. Fulton built the steamer Clermont on the Seine in 1803. Blenkinsop used steam power on coal railroad in 1811. Sieam first employed in dramatic representations in 1821. In 1804 the usual working pressure was 4 pounds to an inch. The Rising Sun, built by Cochrane, crossed Atlantic in 1818. In 1808 the Phoenix was regularly running on the Delaware. Woolf built the first double-cylinder expansion engine in 1804. The Charlotte Dundaf, 1802, used for towing on Scottish canals. In 1865, 250 railroad incorporation biHs passed by Parliament.,