1815-2020 |
Volume #: MMXVI |
Robert Fulton
Arriving in New York in December 1806, Fulton at once set to work supervising the construction of the steamboat that had been planned in Paris with Livingston. He also attempted to interest the U.S. government in a submarine, but his demonstration of it was a fiasco. By early August 1807 a 150-foot- (45-metre-) long Steamboat, as Fulton called it, was ready for trials. Its single-cylinder condensing steam engine (24-inch bore and four-foot stroke) drove two 15-foot-diameter side paddle wheels; it consumed oak and pine fuel, which produced steam at a pressure of two to three pounds per square inch. The 150-mile (240-km) trial run from New York to Albany required 32 hours (an average of almost 4.7 miles [7.6 km] per hour), considerably better time than the four miles per hour required by the monopoly. The passage was epic because sailing sloops required four days for the same trip. |
Richard T. James |
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Nolan Bushnell
After his breakout success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mr Bushnell made several missteps that eventually led to some entrepreneurial failures and financial ruin.
"When I was 35, I was insufferable. I thought I could do no wrong and I got really sloppy," he says.
Now, Mr Bushnell has a habit of referring to his own entrepreneurial journey as if it were a never-developed Atari game.After his breakout success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mr Bushnell made several missteps that eventually led to some entrepreneurial failures and financial ruin.
"When I was 35, I was insufferable. I thought I could do no wrong and I got really sloppy," he says.
Now, Mr Bushnell has a habit of referring to his own entrepreneurial journey as if it were a never-developed Atari game.After his breakout success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mr Bushnell made several missteps that eventually led to some entrepreneurial failures and financial ruin.
"When I was 35, I was insufferable. I thought I could do no wrong and I got really sloppy," he says.
Now, Mr Bushnell has a habit of referring to his own entrepreneurial journey as if it were a never-developed Atari game.
"When I was 35, I was insufferable. I thought I could do no wrong and I got really sloppy," he says.
Now, Mr Bushnell has a habit of referring to his own entrepreneurial journey as if it were a never-developed Atari game.After his breakout success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mr Bushnell made several missteps that eventually led to some entrepreneurial failures and financial ruin.
"When I was 35, I was insufferable. I thought I could do no wrong and I got really sloppy," he says.
Now, Mr Bushnell has a habit of referring to his own entrepreneurial journey as if it were a never-developed Atari game.After his breakout success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mr Bushnell made several missteps that eventually led to some entrepreneurial failures and financial ruin.
"When I was 35, I was insufferable. I thought I could do no wrong and I got really sloppy," he says.
Now, Mr Bushnell has a habit of referring to his own entrepreneurial journey as if it were a never-developed Atari game.