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. Great velocity. [sic] : The same principles are also introduced with effect, by a machine of a simple and chep [sic] 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, Virigina
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 21441
Publisher: Printed by Joseph James: Chesnut-Street.
Published: 1788
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Steam; Steamboats; Steam-navigation; History
Notes: Desribed by Evans as the first impression; cf. Evans 21442.

Evans 21441

Rink, E. Technical Americana, 2925