Note 25 — Chapter V · THE FIRST GLIMMER OF THE SAFETY-LAMP.
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W. Symington (according to Haydn’s Dictionary) made a passage on the Forth and Clyde Canal in 1789. In 1807, Fulton started a steam-boat in America, on the river Hudson. In 1812, steam-vessels first began plying on the Clyde; but it was not till the year 1815 that the first steam-vessel made its appearance on the Thames. This was a boat from Glasgow; for it was only in that year the first steamer was built in England. Ten years afterward (1825) Captain Johnston received £10,000 for making the first steam voyage to India in the Enterprise. In the year 1852 there were 1227 steam-vessels belonging to the United Kingdom.