CHAPTER VII.

STEAM AND STEAM ENGINES.

Prophecy of Dr. Darwin in Eighteenth Century.--Review of the Art from Hero to James Watt.--Pumping Engines.--Road Carriages.-- Watt.--Cugnot.--Rumsey.--Fitch.--Oliver Evans.--Read.-- Symington.--Trevithick.--Locomotives.--Blenkinsop.--Griffith.-- Bramah.--Horse Engine.--Hancock.--Blackett.--George Stephenson.--Hackworth.--Braithwaite.--Ericsson.--Huskisson First Victim of Railroad Accident.--Seguin.--John C. Stevens.-- Horatio Allen.--Peter Cooper.--Symington.--Lord Dundas.--Fulton and Livingston.--The First Successful Steamboat.--Transatlantic Steam Navigation.--Scarborough of Georgia.--Bell of Scotland.-- Cunard Line; Paddle Wheels.--Screw Propellers.--The Age of Kinetic Energy.--Professor Thurston.--Variety of Engines and Boilers.--Corliss.--Bicycle and Automobile Engines.--Napoleon’s Stage Trip and Present Locomotion.--Daniel Webster’s Survey of the Art. 73