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
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Steam; Steamboats; Steam-navigation -- History -- United States
Notes: Desribed by Evans as the first impression; cf. Evans 21442.

Evans 21441.

Rink, E.  Technical Americana, 2925.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21441)