| Author | Rumsey, James, 1743?-1792.
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| 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. By James Rumsey of Berkeley County, Virginia.
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| Published | Philadelphia, Printed by Joseph James: Chestnut-Street, 1788.
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| Description | 26 p. : 21 cm.
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| General Note | 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.
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| Subjects | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Imprints.
Steam-navigation -- History.
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| LC Card Number | 05-19008 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: VM 619 R938S
mq157095: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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