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Steam : The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention
Steam The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention
Author: Andrea Sutcliffe
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 inve...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781403968999
ISBN-10: 1403968993
Publication Date: 5/13/2005
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Paperback
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