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ROBERT LIVINGSTON STEVENS
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ROBERT LIVINGSTON STEVENS, another son of John Stevens, was
born October 18, 1787, and died in Hoboken, April 20, 1856. He began to
assist his father when only seventeen years old. In June, 1808, he took
the ` Phoenix" to Philadelphia by sea and subsequently built a number of
steamboats. From 1815 to 1840 he stood at the head of his profession in
the United States as a constructor of steam vessels and their machinery.
In 1821 he originated the present form of ferryboat and ferryslips. He
invented the split water-wheel in 1826, the balance-valve in 1831, and the
first marine tubular boiler in the same year. He was among the first to
use anthracite coal on vessels. He originated the well known T-rail and a
bomb that could be fired from a cannon instead of from a mortar. He also
built the celebrated Stevens battery, which lay unlaunched in its basin
at Hoboken for many years and was the first ironclad ever projected.
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