Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — Steam Vessels. [ARTICLE]

Steam Vessels.

In the sixteenth century a nunsuceessful Italian genius tried to apply steam to navigation. In 173 G a British patent was taken out for a steamboat. U was 1807 that wituessed Fulton sailing up the Hudson in a boat driven by stenm. In 1838 steamships crossed the Atlantic.