Steam The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention

Name: Steam The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention
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ISBN: 9781403962614

ISBN-10: 1403962618

ISBN-13: 9781403962614

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Andrea Sutcliffe, Andrea J. Sutcliffe

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In 1807, Robert Fulton, using an English mail-order steam engine, chugged four miles an hour up the Hudson River, passing into popular folklore as the inventor of the steamboat. However, the true first passenger steamboat in America, and the world, was built from scratch, and plied the Delaware River in 1790, almost two decades earlier. Its inventor, John Fitch, never attained Fulton's riches, and was rewarded with ridicule and poverty. Considering there was not a single working steam engine in America in the early 1780s, Fitch's steamboat's development was nothing short of remarkable. But he faced competition from the start, and he and several other inventors fought a string of bitter…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 7/16/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.50" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY's bestselling reference books include The New York Public Library Desk Reference, The New York Public Library Book of Answers, The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference, and The New York Public Library Kids' Guide to Research. ANDREA SUTCLIFFE is a freelance writer and editor and a contributor to the National Geographic Desk Reference.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Stream-boats and Steamboats	p. 1
A Ridiculous Idea	p. 17
Brother Saintmakers	p. 35
The War of the Pamphlets	p. 53
The Columbian Maid	p. 71
Lord High Admirals of the Delaware	p. 89
The First and True Inventor	p. 101
"All Further Progress Is in Vain"	p. 119
Leeches and Sharks	p. 133
Mother Clay	p. 147
The French Connection	p. 161
Steamboat Collisions	p. 179
John Fitch's Ghost	p. 201
Epilogue	p. 219
Chronology	p. 227
Notes	p. 231
Bibliography	p. 253
Index	p. 261
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