 | Emery E. Childs - 1885 - 268 páginas
...procured from England put in her. On the 1st of . August the first trip was commenced, and the boat ran from New York to Albany, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, against the current, in thirty-two hours. The boat soon after ran regular trips between those places,... | |
 | 1889 - 308 páginas
...photo-lithographic views, ingeniously arranged so as to show, as in a panorama, both sides of the Hudson river from New York to Albany, — a distance of one hundred and fifty miles. The views are reproduced from eight hundred consecutive photographs, and show with absolute accuracy... | |
 | William Augustus Mowry, Arthur May Mowry - 1900 - 318 páginas
...must steam up the Hudson River at a. speed of, at least, four miles an hour. The trip proposed was from New York to Albany, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, and return. This trip was regularly made by sailing packets, and the average time was four days. Could... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams - 1910 - 428 páginas
...must stand as the most momentous in maritime history. In that year the little Clermont steamed slowly from New York to Albany, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles in thirty-two hours, unaided by sails or oars, and propelled entirely by steam-power. A sail-boat could... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1910 - 394 páginas
...must stand as the most momentous in maritime history. In that year the little Clermont steamed slowly from New York to Albany, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles in thirty-two hours, unaided by sails or oars, and propelled entirely by steam-power. A sail-boat could... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams - 1912 - 232 páginas
...must stand as the most momentous in maritime history. In that year the little Clermont steamed slowly from New York to Albany, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, in thirty-two hours, unaided by sails or oars, and propelled entirely by steam-power. A sailboat could... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy - 1913 - 372 páginas
...thirty-two hours the Clermont steamed WESTWARD MIGRATION Steamboats on the rivers and lakes THE "CLERMONT" from New York to Albany, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles. This was but the beginning of the use of steam-driven craft on the rivers and lakes of our country.... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Gordy - 1917 - 542 páginas
...were working the boat had no such foolish fears. They set themselves to their task and made the trip from New York to Albany, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, in thirty-two hours. Success had at last come to the quiet, modest, persevering Fulton. After this trial... | |
 | Charles Manfred Thompson - 1917 - 586 páginas
...proved beyond a doubt that steam navigation was practicable, when his boat, the Clermont, made the trip from New York to Albany, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, in thirtytwo hours.1 216. Development of River Traffic. — Fulton and his partner, Chancellor Livingston,... | |
 | Mary Rosetta Parkman - 1921 - 470 páginas
...On that day his steamboat, called the Clermont after Livingston's estate on the Hudson, made a trip from New York to Albany (a distance of one hundred and fifty miles) in thirty-two hours. Then his years of observation and experiment, of careful study of earlier attempts... | |
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Clermont steamed slowly from New York to Albany, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles in thirty-two hours, unaided by sails or oars, and propelled entirely by steam-power. 
