A short treatise on the application of steam
Subtitle: whereby is clearly shewn, from actual experiments, that steam may be applied to propel boats or vessels of any burthen against rapid currents with great velocity. The same principles are also introduced with effect, by a machine of a simple and cheap construction, for the purpose of raising water sufficient for the working of grist mills, saw mills, &c. and for watering meadows and other purposes of agriculture
By: By James Rumsey of Berkely [!] County, Virginia
Contributors: Fitch, John, 1743-1798
Publisher: Printed by Joseph James
Published: 1788
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1038
Subjects: Steam-navigation; History
Notes: Extracted from The documentary history of the state of New York, Albany, 1849, v. 2.

"First published by Rumsey January 1, 1788, under the title of 'A plan wherein the power of steam is fully shewn' ... It is this edition that Fitch alludes to in ... [the] 'Preface' [to his The original steam-boat supported] ... The 'Postscript' and the extract of General Washington's letter of 10th March 1785, are not in the first edition." Editor's note, p. 1035.

"The Rumseian Society, Philadelphia, to the speaker of the House of Assembly, N.Y., ": p. 1036-1038.