Steam
Subtitle: The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 16, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781403962614
Subjects: Inventors; Transportation; Science/Mathematics; History; United States; History Of Technology; Ship Design And Construction; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; Technology; Rumsey, James,; United States - 19th Century; Marine engineers; Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / History; 18th century; Steam-navigation; Engineering - General; 1743-1798; 1743?-1792; Biography; Fitch, John,
First sentence: Late on a drizzly September afternoon in 1784, George Washington guided his horse down a rocky trail into the mineral springs town of Bath.