Steam: The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention by Andrea Sutcliffe

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

Andrea Sutcliffe

304 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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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...

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