| | Book | Save | | 2 | Title: | A short treatise on the application of steam: 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
| | | | Creator: | Rumsey, James, 1743?-1792 | | | | Publication: | Printed by Joseph James: Chestnut-Street, Philadelphia,1788. | | | | Notes: | 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. | | | | Call #: | VM619 R938S | | | | Extent: | 26 p. : 21 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Steam-navigation -- History | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Imprints
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| Book | Save | | 4 | Title: | A lost chapter in the history of the steamboat
| | | | Creator: | Latrobe, John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval), 1803-1891 | | | | Publication: | Printed by John Murphy], Baltimore,1871. | | | | Notes: | Regarding the author's connection with a case (never brought to trial) involving a patent granted to Nicholas J. Roosevelt in 1814 for using vertical wheels with steam engines to propel boats. | | | | Call #: | F13B M393F no.5 | | | | Extent: | 44 p. ; 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Roosevelt, Nicholas J., -- 1767-1854 | Steam-navigation -- History
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| Article | Save | | 5 | Title: | John Fitch, inventor of steamboats
| | | | Parent: | Ohio archaeol. hist. q. Ohio arch¥ological and historical quarterly. Columbus, Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe, 1900-[1901]. 23 cm. v. 8, p. 397-408; v. 9, p. 238-242. pl., map
| | | | Creator: | Parsons, Mira Clarke. | | | | Publication: | | | | | Notes: | "The trial of the first ship moved by steam was successfully made July 26, 1786."--p. 402. | | | | Call #: | F34B O37P9 v.8-9 | | | | Extent: | | | | | Subjects: | Fitch, John, -- 1743-1798 | Steam-navigation -- History
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| Book | Save | | 6 | Title: | Justice to the memory of John Fitch: who in 1785 invented a steam engine and steam boat, planned, constructed and put in operation the steam boat "Perseverance," of sixty tons, moving at the rate of eight miles an hour, in 1788
| | | | Creator: | Whittlesey, Charles, 1808-1886 | | | | Publication: | Printed at the Daily Atlas Office, Cincinnati,1845. | | | | Notes: | "From the February (1845) number of the Western literary journal and monthly review." Includes bibliographical references. | | | | Call #: | VM140 F545W7 | | | | Extent: | 12 p. ; 26 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Fitch, John, -- 1743-1798 | Steam-navigation -- History | Ohio imprints 1845
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