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Author Sutcliffe, Andrea J.

Title Steam : the untold story of America's first great invention / Andrea Sutcliffe.

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  623.8722 SUTCLIFFE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-260) and index.
Contents Stream-boats and steamboats -- A ridiculous idea -- Brother saintmakers -- The war of the pamphlets -- The Columbian maid -- Lord High Admirals of the Delaware -- The first and true inventor -- "All further progress is in vain" -- Leeches and sharks -- Mother clay -- The French connection -- Steamboat collisions -- John Fitch's ghost -- Epilogue.
Subject Fitch, John, 1743-1798.
Rumsey, James, 1743?-1792.
Marine engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Steam-navigation -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 1403962618
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