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 princples 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 Berkeley County, Virginia.
Contributors: American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress); Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Joseph James: Chestnut-Street
Published: 1788
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Steam-navigation -- Early works to 1800; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Imprints
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Evans 21441
Reprinted, in anticipation of a reply by John Fitch, from a pamphlet published in Virginia, to prove the author's prior right of applying steam to propel boats, &c. cf. Advertisement.