John Stevens
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In 1804, his small steamboat, Little Juliana, operated by twin-screw propellers, made a successful trip across the Hudson River and back to the New Jersey shore. Three years later, Stevens built the paddle steamer Phoenix, the first steam engine fully built in the United States. In 1809, he circumvented a monopoly on steam navigation rights on the Hudson by sending the Phoenix to Philadelphia by sea\u00e2\u0080\u0094making it the first steam-powered vessel to complete an ocean voyage. Thereafter, he ran a commercial steamboat ferry line between Philadelphia and Trenton."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "In 1825, Stevens designed the first U.S.-built steam locomotive. He operated it, at the rate of over twelve miles per hour, on a circular track at his Hoboken estate to demonstrate the feasibility of replacing horses with steam-powered railroad transportation."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Nacido en la Ciudad de Nueva York"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "John Stevens, coronel de la Guerra de Independencia, educado en leyes e ingeniero autodidacto, fue uno de los primeros que experimentaron con m\u00c3\u00a1quinas de vapor. En 1804 su peque\u00c3\u00b1o vapor Little Julianna, propulsado por dos h\u00c3\u00a9lices, cruz\u00c3\u00b3 exitosamente el r\u00c3\u00ado Hudson de ida y vuelta a Nueva Jersey. Tres a\u00c3\u00b1os m\u00c3\u00a1s tarde construy\u00c3\u00b3 el vapor de ruedas Phoenix, primero producido totalmente en Estados Unidos. En 1809, para evadir un monopolio sobre los derechos de navegaci\u00c3\u00b3n a vapor por el r\u00c3\u00ado Hudson, envi\u00c3\u00b3 el Phoenix a Filadelfia por mar, con lo que este fue el primer barco de vapor que realiz\u00c3\u00b3 un viaje mar\u00c3\u00adtimo. A partir de entonces, Stevens tuvo una l\u00c3\u00adnea comercial de vapores entre Filadelfia y Trenton."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "En 1825, Stevens dise\u00c3\u00b1\u00c3\u00b3 la primera locomotora de vapor construida en EE.UU. La conduc\u00c3\u00ada, a poco m\u00c3\u00a1s de 12 millas por hora, sobre una v\u00c3\u00ada circular en su propiedad de Hoboken para demostrar que era viable remplazar a los caballos con transporte ferroviario de vapor."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "H. H. Walker Lewis, Baltimore [1904-1999, descendant]; gift 1975 NPG"}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of H.H. 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