Project Gutenberg 2006-12-28 Public domain in the USA. 55 Anonymous Anonyme Anonymous, Anonymous History of Steam on the Erie Canal Produced by Bryan Ness, Irma Špehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "History of Steam on the Erie Canal" by Anonymous is a historical account written in the early 1970s. The book examines the development and trials of steam power on the Erie Canal, detailing various steam vessels' designs and performances between the late 1850s and the early 1870s. It explores the challenges faced in the pursuit of adopting steam technology for canal transportation, specifically highlighting mechanical shortcomings and the effectiveness of existing horse-drawn systems. The book presents an in-depth analysis of multiple steam-powered vessels, such as the "Charles Wack", "Cathcart", and "Baxter", evaluating their operational histories and technical specifications while contrasting them with horse-drawn boats. The author systematically chronicles various designs and innovations attempted over the years, emphasizing their inefficiencies and failures. Ultimately, it stresses the need for significant mechanical improvements to make steam-powered vessels competitive with traditional horse-drawn transport, advocating for ongoing support and inventive approaches to enhance steam technology on the canal. The work serves as both an informative resource on a specific historical period and a critique of the technological limitations of steam propulsion in canal transport. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Steam-navigation -- New York (State) -- Erie canal Erie Canal (N.Y.) HE Text Technology Browsing: Engineering & Construction Browsing: History - American Browsing: Science - General 83400 83409 2024-09-09T04:24:39.833576 2023-09-09T07:15:51.520129 text/html text/html 81147 2021-01-01T16:44:02 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 28366 2021-01-01T16:44:02 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 82045 2024-09-09T04:24:43.620584 application/epub+zip 80804 2024-09-09T04:24:41.139557 application/epub+zip 80802 2024-09-09T04:24:40.337568 application/epub+zip 188943 2024-09-09T04:24:45.605551 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 177413 2024-09-09T04:24:43.079558 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 177447 2022-09-09T13:25:31.090432 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 71639 71422 2024-09-09T04:24:39.535564 2023-09-09T07:15:51.246183 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 71404 2021-01-01T16:44:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 25975 2021-01-01T16:44:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 71395 2021-01-01T16:44:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 25957 2021-01-01T16:44:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20842 2024-09-09T04:24:45.741556 application/rdf+xml 14658 2024-09-09T04:24:40.670566 image/jpeg 3763 2024-09-09T04:24:40.501590 image/jpeg 80100 2024-09-09T04:24:39.841577 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia More titles under Unknown