Who Really Invented the Steamboat?
Fulton's Clermont Coup
Illustrated and indexed
6.25 by 9.25 inch, hard bound, 441 pages
Published by Prometheus, 2004
List price $35.00
Available from various web sites


CONTENTS

1. The signifance of the steamboat

2. The invention, the inventor, and society

3. The steamboat as a system

4. Early steamboat experimenters

5. William Henry

6. James Rumsey

7. John Fitch

8. Oliver Evans

9. Nathan Read

10. Samuel Morey

11. Robert Fulton

12. John Stevens

13. The Steamboat Inventor

Epilogue

Appendix A - Rumsey's water jet steamboat explained

Appendix B - Minimum horsepower to weight examined

Index

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