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Its inventor, John Fitch, never attained Fulton's riches, and was rewarded with ridicule and poverty.

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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 battles, legal and otherwise. "Steam tells the dramatic story of Fitch and his adversaries, weaving their lives into a fascinating tale including the likes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. It is the story behind America's first important venture in technology, the persevering and colorful men that made it happen, and the great invention that moved a new nation westward.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10
1403968993
ISBN-13
9781403968999
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44570770

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Book Title
Steam : the Untold Story of America's First Great Invention
Author
Andrea Sutcliffe, Andrea J. Sutcliffe
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Navigation, General, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Marine & Naval, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Transportation, History
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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Item Length
8.2 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz

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"An absorbing and enlightening tale of 'Yankee ingenuity' at the very dawn of the steam age." --John Steele Gordon, author ofA Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable "What a ride! It's all there: duplicity, steamy intrigue and scandal, with cameo roles played by Napoleon, Jefferson, Washington, Thomas Paine, and James Watt. My personal hero, the tormented American steamboat inventor, John Fitch, rises above this glorious fray like cream upon milk. His is a story whose incompleteness has dogged us over the years. Indeed, we are, at last, shown the full tapestry of the steamboat invention in one fast-moving book. Hard history and good fun. You'll love it." --John H. Lienhard, author ofThe Engines of Our IngenuityandInventing Modern
Table of Content
Streamboats and Steamboats * A Ridiculous Idea * Brother Saintmakers * The War of the Pamphlets * The Columbian Maid * Lord High Admirals of the Delaware * Jefferson's Choice * The End of Perseverance * Leeches and Sharks * War and Peace * A Mail-order Steamboat * Thornton's Revenge
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Dewey Decimal
623.87/22/0973
Dewey Edition
22

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