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	John Stevens (inventor) Summary
		John Stevens was born in New York City, where his father was a shipowner and shipmaster and a wealthy landowner prominent in politics.
		Stevens then became consultant for the Manhattan Company, which was building a water system for the city of New York, and in 1802 he became head of the Bergen Turnpike Company.
		John Stevens, III (1749 - March 6, 1838) was a lawyer, engineer, and inventor.
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	John Stevens (inventor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Stevens, III (1749 - March 6, 1838) was an American lawyer, engineer, and an inventor.
		Born in New York, New York, the son of John Stevens (1715-1792), secretary to Governor Livingston of New York, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Alexander.
		The first railroad charter in the U.S. was given to Stevens and others in 1815 for the New Jersey Railroad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Stevens_(inventor) (319 words)

	John Stevens (New Jersey) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Stevens was delegate to the Continental Congress from New Jersey in 1783.
		John Stevens became Secretary to New York Governor Livingston.
		Stevens died on 10 May 1792 in Hoboken, New Jersey, and was interred at the Frame Meetinghouse Cemetery in Lambertville, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Stevens_(New_Jersey) (167 words)

	John Stevens - MSN Encarta
		Stevens was born in New York City and educated at King's College (now Columbia University).
		In 1804 Stevens built a twin-screw steamship and in 1807, with his son Robert Livingston Stevens, built the paddle-wheeled steamboat Phoenix, which operated for six years on the Delaware River.
		Another son of Stevens, the inventor and engineer Edwin Augustus Stevens, founded the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576539/Stevens_John.html (238 words)

	John Stevens - MSN Encarta
		Stevens was born in New York City and educated at King's College (now Columbia University).
		In 1804 Stevens built a twin-screw steamship and in 1807, with his son Robert Livingston Stevens, built the paddle-wheeled steamboat Phoenix, which operated for six years on the Delaware River.
		Another son of Stevens, the inventor and engineer Edwin Augustus Stevens, founded the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576539/John_Stevens.html (234 words)

	Railroad collections
		Two of John Stevens' seven sons, -- Robert and Edwin -- also were prominent engineers and developers of transportation equipment who collaborated with their father.
		Stevens' railroad, which would have propelled a 100-ton cargo at four miles per hour using a 20-horse power steam engine, was estimated by him to cost only one-third the projected outlay for the canal.
		Stevens argued this route would reduce transit time by half and would have important national defense benefits by avoiding the risks of enemy naval interference with commerce on the open seas (as in the war of 1812).
	www.americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d8333.htm (1619 words)

	About the School of Engineering History \| Stevens Institute of Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Stevens Institute of Technology was founded in 1870 by a bequest in the will of Edwin A. Stevens, son of Colonel John Stevens III.
		John Stevens III (1749-1838), treasurer of NJ in Revolutionary War, bought land that became Hoboken at end of War.
		John Cox Stevens, first son of Col. Stevens, and Edwin were founders of the NY Yacht Club and joined the syndicate that built and successfully raced the schooner "America" in the race that became known as the America's Cup.
	www.soe.stevens-tech.edu /About_SoE/history.html (1186 words)

	Stevens Institute of Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		John Stevens, III, was educated at Kings College (Columbia) and followed the example of his father and most of the landed elite by joining the patriot party during the Revolutionary War.
		In general, the interest of Americans was whetted by the inventor John Fitch's public demonstration of a primitive model steamboat in 1787 before members of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia the first steamboat in the world.
		Colonel John became an enthusiastic and active supporter of steam navigation and envisioned, as did Fitch before him, the public benefits and personal profits resulting from steamboats linking the geographically separated population centers in the United States.
	www.stevens-tech.edu /main/about/col_john.shtml (369 words)

	RAILROADS,
		In the 1870s the American inventor Eli Hamilton Janney (1831–1912) patented a design for couplers with pivoted knuckles that would interlock automatically when two cars were pushed together and that could be disengaged by means of a lever extending to the side of the car.
		Some years previously, in 1815, the first railroad charter in the U.S. had been granted by the state of New Jersey to the inventor John Stevens, father of Robert L. Stevens (the inventor of the T rail) and sometimes called the father of American railroads.
		John Stevens was the original organizer of the Pennsylvania Railroad but could not finance his project.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=220263 (6382 words)

	Stevens. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		By the late 1780s, however, Stevens had turned his attention to steamboat transportation, and having played a major role in the establishment of the first U.S. patent laws, he procured patents for various steam boilers and auxiliary devices.
		Stevens operated (1811) the first steam ferry between New York City and Hoboken, but because of the monopoly of Robert Fulton, he soon desisted.
		He was also noted for initiating the construction of a railroad from New York City to Philadelphia, as the inventor of the Stevens plow, and as a pioneer builder of ironclad warships.
	www.bartleby.com /65/st/Stvns.html (408 words)

	Stevens Institute of Technology - Itwiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Stevens Institute of Technology is a technological university located on a 55 acre (223,000 m²) campus in Hoboken, New Jersey, founded in 1870 on the basis of an 1868 bequest from Edwin A. Stevens.
		Stevens is one of the few schools in the United States that has retained a broad-based engineering curriculum, requiring many courses in engineering disciplines outside of one's major area of concentration as well as an extensive science foundation.
		Stevens students credit the high, diverse course load with providing them the ability to solve problems outside their immediate fields of study, and to effectively attack interdisciplinary problems that cut across many different, but related, areas of engineering and science.
	www.stevens.edu /itwiki/cgi-bin/wiki/index.php?title=Stevens (2827 words)

	Railroad collections
		Stevens' railroad, which would have propelled a 100-ton cargo at four miles per hour using a 20-horse power steam engine, was estimated by him to cost only one-third the projected outlay for the canal.
		Stevens' proposal was rejected by a New York State government committee which had doubts about the feasibility of the scheme.
		Stevens argued this route would reduce transit time by half and would have important national defense benefits by avoiding the risks of enemy naval interference with commerce on the open seas (as in the war of 1812).
	americanhistory.si.edu /archives/d8333.htm (1619 words)

	Robert R. Livingston Inventor and Entrepreneur
		Stevens himself was merely latching on to an age-old challenge that some dated back to the ancient Greeks, while other pointed most modestly to various seventeenth— century experimentors.
		The first rival was John Stevens who had not complained about Livingston’s callous disregard of their contract, but simply built a boat called the Phoenix and announced he would run her from his private landing in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Albany under a federal coasting license.
		Stevens was quickly succeeded by a group of Albany speculators who brazenly copied Fulton’s designed and hired men he had trained to build two boats, aptly called the Hope and the Perseverance.
	www.ulster.net /~hrmm/steamboats/livingston/prt-phillip.html (2960 words)

	History of the Camden & Amboy
		It was founded by inventor, naval architect and transportation pioneer, John Stevens and his sons, Robert and Edwin.
		In 1815, John Stevens succeeded in getting the New Jersey Legislature to authorize the forming of a company "to erect a rail road from the River Delaware near Trenton to the River Raritan at or near New Brunswick." This legislation was the first railroad act of the United States.
		Stevens soon replaced all the stone blocks with wood crossties, a practice eventually adopted by all railroads.
	www.jcrhs.org /camden&amboy.html (802 words)

	Today in History: November 27
		In June 1776, Livingston was one of five men—along with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Roger Sherman—appointed by the Continental Congress to draft the Declaration of Independence.
		Along with John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, Livingston was instrumental in his role as chancellor in persuading New York to ratify the federal Constitution.
		The inventor John Stevens was Livingston's brother-in-law, and they were associates in experiments relating to the development of steam navigation.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/nov27.html (1223 words)

	RR Museum of PA - History and Magic
		Later hailed as both a "genius of steam" and "the father of American railroading," Stevens himself never built a railroad, but his was the first voice in America to firmly proclaim their need and their feasibility.
		Fifteen years earlier, Stevens had turned over operation of his steamboat lines to his sons, and shifted his attention to the use of steam for propulsion on land.
		Unfortunately, Stevens was unable to convince financiers to support construction of the proposed route, notwithstanding his having demonstrated that a locomotive could climb the hills whereas canals could not.
	www.rrmuseumpa.org /about/welcome/historymagic.htm (1693 words)

	Hoboken, New Jersey - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In connexion with the institute there is a preparatory department, the Stevens School (1870).
		During the War of Independence his descendant, William Bayard, was a loyalist, and his home was burned and his estate confiscated.
		In 1784 the property was purchased by John Stevens, the inventor, who in 1804 laid it out as a town.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Hoboken,_New_Jersey (473 words)

	Stevens, John (1749-6 Mar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Stevens was enthralled, and from that moment until his death he devoted himself and his fortune to the advancement of steam-propelled transportation both on water and on land.
		Stevens then became consulting engineer for the Manhattan Company, organized to provide an adequate water supply for the city.
		Stevens of Hoboken," Journal of the Franklin Institute, Oct. 1874, and J. Watkins, "Biographical Sketches of John, Robert L. and Edwin A. Stevens (1892).
	www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/chpX/JohnStevens.htm (1090 words)

	Ship Building pg 3
		The earliest recorded use of steam power in a boat was in 1786, when the American inventor John Fitch launched a small steamboat on the Delaware River.
		The American inventor Robert Fulton built his first successful paddle-wheel boat in 1807, and within a few years boats of this type were in extensive use on inland and coastal waters in both Great Britain and the United States.
		Introduced independently in 1836 by the Swede John Ericsson and the Briton Francis Smith, the screw propeller was tried out in a number of vessels, notably the British vessel Great Britain, which was completed in 1844.
	www.ovayonda.org /boating/history_pg3.htm (1726 words)

	Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		His early work paralleled that of inventor and engineer Robert Fulton (1765-1815), and in 1809 his steamboat Phoenix was engaged in regular commercial transport between Philadelphia and Trenton.
		Later hailed as a "genius of steam" and as "the father of American railroading," Stevens himself never actually built railroads, but his was the first voice in America to strongly proclaim their need and their feasibility.
		Colonel John Stevens attempted to dissuade New York's Governor DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828) from constructing the Erie Canal.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/rrmuseum/page1.asp (510 words)

	His 111 - Steam Screw Propellers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Stevens; for the purpose of sustaining the claim of their father to the honor of being the first inventor of the propeller.
		The tendency of the boat so tried, was to move in a circle; a result due to the lessened resistance, as the vanes rose towards the surface, in consequence of the greater ease with which the water was removed out of the way.
		Stevens for that year 1844 is now in the Archives of the American Institute, the report was made by Gen. Thomas W. Harvey the Chairman of the Committee of Judges.
	museum.state.il.us /RiverWeb/landings/Ambot/Archives/stevens/1803.htm (1300 words)

	ipedia.com: John Stevens (inventor) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		John Stevens, III was a lawyer, engineer, and inventor.
		Born in New York, New York, the son of John Stevens, secretary to Governor Livingston of New York, and his wife Elizabeth Alexander.
		In 1802 he built a screw-driven steamboat, and in 1809 he built the Phoenix, an ocean-going steamboat.
	www.ipedia.com /john_stevens__inventor_.html (271 words)

	History of the Camden & Amboy
		It was founded by inventor, naval architect and transportation pioneer, John Stevens and his sons, Robert and Edwin.
		In 1815, John Stevens succeeded in getting the New Jersey Legislature to authorize the forming of a company "to erect a rail road from the River Delaware near Trenton to the River Raritan at or near New Brunswick." This legislation was the first railroad act of the United States.
		Stevens soon replaced all the stone blocks with wood crossties, a practice eventually adopted by all railroads.
	jcrhs.org /camden&amboy.html (802 words)

	Samuel Morey
		John Fitch's steamboat of 1786 was set in motion by a series of paddles which managed to row it in the manner of a waddling duck.
		The screw propeller used by John Stevens and the work of Oliver Evans, who tested a stern paddle wheel steamboat in 1804, were both subsequent to Morey's experiments.
		It appears, then, that Samuel Morey with his early paddle wheel at the bow of his boat, later at the stern, and finally its development into a wheel at each side of the boat, was ahead of others in demonstrating the answer to steamboat navigation.
	kinnexions.com /smlsource/samuel.htm (5022 words)

	Ships and Shipbuilding - MSN Encarta
		Among the early attempts to apply the screw-propeller principle to the propulsion of boats was the construction in 1804 by the American inventor John Stevens of a twin-screw steam-powered boat.
		Introduced independently in 1836 by John Ericsson and Francis Smith, the screw propeller was tried out in a number of vessels, notably the British vessel Great Britain, which was completed in 1843.
		The ship was 98.2 m (322 ft) in length and had a cargo capacity of almost 3,550 tonnes.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571524_4/Ships_and_Shipbuilding.html (1550 words)

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		The institute owes much to its first president, Henry Morton (1836–1902), a distinguished scientist, whose aim was " to offer a course of instruction in which theory and practice were carefully balanced and thoroughly combined," and who gave to the institute sums aggregating $175,000 (see Morten Memorial, History of Stevens Institute, ed.
		In connexion with the, institute there is a preparatory department, the Stevens School (187o).
		In 1784 the property was purchased by John Stevens, the inventor, who.in 1804 laid it out as a town.
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