No one could have been in direr poverty than he when the steamboat landed him in New York in 1869. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Before she had gone a quarter of a mile both passengers and observers on the shore were satisfied that the steamboat was a thoroughly practicable vessel. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
The sailor with the black beard got out, and spoke to the steward of the Rotterdam steamboat, which was to start next morning. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
It was the first commercially successful steamboat ever made, as George Stephenson's was the first commercially successful locomotive. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
A century has not dimmed Fulton’s fame, nor set aside his claim to be the practical inventor of the steamboat. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
The Earl was deeply interested, and encouraged the young American to persevere, but for the time Fulton left the steamboat to work out other problems. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
The name of _Clermont_ was changed to the _North River_ the following spring, and the reconstructed steamboat continued in regular service on the Hudson for a number of years. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
John Stevens of New Jersey was also at work on a steamboat, and had in 1804 built such a boat at his shops, having a screw propeller and a flue boiler. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
The building of a practicable steamboat had long been in his mind. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
William Henry, of Pennsylvania, tried a model steamboat on the Conestoga river in 1763. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
Other men had worked over steamboats, but he reached the goal. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Symington and his fellow Scotchmen, Miller and Taylor, in 1788-89 also constructed working steamboats. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
Other prominent Frenchmen made encouraging experiments on small steamboats--followed in 1784-86 by James Rumsey and John Fitch in America in the same line. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
At this place many stores and five steamboats fell into our hands. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
But Scottish waters, and the waters around other coasts of the British Islands, had been traversed by steamboats before this celebrated trip of the _Savannah_. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
Fulton, when in Paris, had experimented with models of steamboats, and had studied the records of what had already been done in that line. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Ward & Company, at that time the largest owners of steamboats on the Great Lakes. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Bell's steamboat between Glasgow and Greenock in 1812 was followed by five others in 1814; and seven steamboats plied on the Thames in 1817. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.