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

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 272 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1403962618
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • VM140.F5 S88 2004
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-260) and index.

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.

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