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Steam: The Untold Story of Americas First Great Invention
Steam The Untold Story of Americas 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 and into American folklore as the inventor of the steamboat. However, the true first passenger steamboat in America, and the world, was built from scratch by John Fitch and plied the Delaware River almost two decades earlier. Steam te...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781422364406
ISBN-10: 1422364402
Publication Date: 1/1/2004
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Palgrave/St. Martins
Book Type: Paperback
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