Title: The steamboat Phoenix and the archaeology of early steam navigation in North America /
Authors: Schwarz, George R.,
Date: 2018
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
Physical description: xvii, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: V
Abstract: "The steamboat Phoenix and the archaeology of early steam navigation in North America" offers an in-depth exploration of the archaeological and cultural aspects of early American steamboat development. It also tells the story of Phoenix, the second steamer to operate on Lake Champlain and the world's earliest archaeologically studied steamboat wreck. In doing so, this book breathes life into the event that first opened people's eyes to the speed, comfort and efficiency of steam propulsion, as well as to the hazards associated with steamboat operation"--
Contents: From "bull boats" to steamboats on early American waterways -- Genesis of North American steam navigation -- Phoenix -- A study of American steamboat heritage -- Construction features of an early American steamer -- From the ashes (a reconstruction) -- Phoenix and the design characteristics of early 19th-century paddlewheelers -- Steamboat living on American waterways in the first quarter of the 19th century.
Subject headings (LCSH): Phoenix (Steamship); Phoenix (Steamship)--History.; Shipwrecks--Champlain, Lake.; Steam-navigation--North America--History.; Steamboats--North America--History.; Steamboats--United States--History.; Underwater archaeology--Champlain, Lake.; Underwater archaeology--North America.