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Steam: The Untold Story Of America's First Great Invention (Thorndike Press Large Print American History Series)
Steam The Untold Story Of America's First Great Invention - Thorndike Press Large Print American History Series
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 in...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780786268948
ISBN-10: 0786268948
Publication Date: 9/20/2004
Pages: 541
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Publisher: Thorndike Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Large Print: Yes
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