Steamboats Come True: American Inventors in Action
Language: English
Published by Little Brown, 1978
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- Title
- Steamboats Come True: American Inventors in Action
- Author
- Flexner, James T.
- Publisher
- Little Brown
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0316286087
- ISBN 13
- 9780316286084
Documents events leading up to the invention of the steamboat, focusing on John Fitch, an inventor, James Rumsey, a gambler, and Robert Fulton, who succeeded first, winning fame and money
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First published in 1944 to unanimous praise, James Thomas Flexner's Steamboats Come True has indeed done more than stand the test of time. It remains a splendidly myth-debunking but celebratory account of 'the first American invention of world-shattering importance'--the steamboat.
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