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.
Contributors: Fitch, John, 1743-1798.
Publisher: Weed, Parsons, printers
Published: 1849
Place of publication: [Albany
Number of pages: 1102
Subjects: Steam-navigation -- History
Other titles: Original steam-boat supported
Notes: Reprint, with facsim. t.p., of the original ed.: Philadephia : Printed by Joseph James, 1788.

Detached from The Documentary history of the state of New-York, v. 2 (Albany, 1849).

"The original steam-boat supported, or, A reply to Mr. James Rumsey's pamphlet, shewing the true priority of John Fitch, and the false datings, &c. of James Rumsey ..." (p. [1039]-1102) has facsim. t.p. of original ed.: Philadelphia : Printed by Zachariah Poulson, junr., 1788.