Posted By: Norm Mikalac on: 08/21/2006 04:50:29 EDTSubject: Tug history
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Posted By: Norm Mikalac on: 08/21/2006 04:50:29 EDT Subject: Tug history |
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I can't join your festivities, but I enjoyed reading your tugboat history. I was surprised to learn of the steam-powered tug on the U.K. canal in 1802, 5 years before Fulton's famous 1807 voyage up the Hudson. I wonder if it was invented independent of John Fitch's steamboats that ran on the Delaware River in the 1780s and 1790s? Question about, "Power is generated by the original 5.5 kilowatt Westinghouse dynamo generator driven by an American Blower high-speed (500rpm) rotative steam engine." By a "rotative steam engine", do you mean a steam turbine? Thanks for your very interesting and informative site. Norm Mikalac |
