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 ...
By: / by James Rumsey ... Philadelphia, Printed by Joseph James ... 1788
Publisher: Weed, Parsons & Co., Public Printers
Published: 1849
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1038
Subjects: Steam-navigation; History; Steamboats; Steam-engines
Notes: Reprint from The documentary history of the State of New York. 1849, v. 2.

The original pamphlet was published under the title: A plan wherein the power of steam is fully shewn.