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Author : John Fitch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Original Steam-boat Supported written by John Fitch and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrea Sutcliffe
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466892625
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Steam written by Andrea Sutcliffe and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1807, Robert Fulton, using an English mail-order steam engine, chugged four miles an hour up the Hudson River, passing into popular folklore as the inventor of the steamboat. However, the true first passenger steamboat in America, and the world, was built from scratch, and plied the Delaware River in 1790, almost two decades earlier. Its inventor, John Fitch, never attained Fulton's riches, and was rewarded with ridicule and poverty. Considering there was not a single working steam engine in America in the early 1780s, Fitch's steamboat's development was nothing short of remarkable. But he faced competition from the start, and he and several other inventors fought a string of bitter battles, legal and otherwise. Steam tells the dramatic story of Fitch and his adversaries, weaving their lives into a fascinating tale including the likes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. It is the story behind America's first important venture in technology, the persevering and colorful men that made it happen, and the great invention that moved a new nation westward.
Author : John Fitch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Original Steam-boat Supported written by John Fitch and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S.L. Kotar
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456973
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Steamboat Era written by S.L. Kotar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The steamboat evokes images of leisurely travel, genteel gambling, and lively commerce, but behind the romanticized view is an engineering marvel that led the way for the steam locomotive. From the steamboat's development by Robert Fulton to the dawn of the Civil War, the new mode of transportation opened up America's frontiers and created new trade routes and economic centers. Firsthand accounts of steamboat accidents, races, business records and river improvements are collected here to reveal the culture and economy of the early to mid-1800s, as well as the daily routines of crew and passengers. A glossary of steamboat terms and a collection of contemporary accounts of accidents round out this history of the riverboat era.
Author : Robert H. Gudmestad
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807138428
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom written by Robert H. Gudmestad and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arrival of the first steamboat, The New Orleans, in early 1812 touched off an economic revolution in the South. In states west of the Appalachian Mountains, the operation of steamboats quickly grew into a booming business that would lead to new cultural practices and a stronger sectional identity. In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom, Robert Gudmestad examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefited slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production. This technology literally put people into motion, and travelers developed an array of unique cultural practices, from gambling to boat races. Gudmestad also asserts that the intersection of these riverboats and the environment reveals much about sectional identity in antebellum America. As federal funds backed railroad construction instead of efforts to clear waterways for steamboats, southerners looked to coordinate their own economic development, free of national interests. Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the prewar South.
Author : Louis C. Hunter
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486157784
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Steamboats on the Western Rivers written by Louis C. Hunter and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development — from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.
Author : David Lear Buckman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River written by David Lear Buckman and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas H. Cox
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 082144333X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic written by Thomas H. Cox and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic examines a landmark decision in American jurisprudence, the first Supreme Court case to deal with the thorny legal issue of interstate commerce. Decided in 1824, Gibbons v. Ogden arose out of litigation between owners of rival steamboat lines over passenger and freight routes between the neighboring states of New York and New Jersey. But what began as a local dispute over the right to ferry the paying public from the New Jersey shore to New York City soon found its way into John Marshall’s court and constitutional history. The case is consistently ranked as one of the twenty most significant Supreme Court decisions and is still taught in constitutional law courses, cited in state and federal cases, and quoted in articles on constitutional, business, and technological history. Gibbons v. Ogden initially attracted enormous public attention because it involved the development of a new and sensational form of technology. To early Americans, steamboats were floating symbols of progress—cheaper and quicker transportation that could bring goods to market and refinement to the backcountry. A product of the rough-and-tumble world of nascent capitalism and legal innovation, the case became a landmark decision that established the supremacy of federal regulation of interstate trade, curtailed states’ rights, and promoted a national market economy. The case has been invoked by prohibitionists, New Dealers, civil rights activists, and social conservatives alike in debates over federal regulation of issues ranging from labor standards to gun control. This lively study fills in the social and political context in which the case was decided—the colorful and fascinating personalities, the entrepreneurial spirit of the early republic, and the technological breakthroughs that brought modernity to the masses.
Author : David Lear Buckman
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230452784
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River; Tales and Reminiscences of the Stirring Times That Followed the Introduction of Steam Navigation written by David Lear Buckman and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX APPENDIX I THE CLERMONT'S FIRST REGISTRY* No. 108. Enrollment in conformity to an Act of the Congress of the United States of America entitled "An Act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same." Robert R. Livingston, of Clermont, Columbia County, State of New York, having taken and subscribed to the oath required by the said Act and having sworn that he, together with Robert Fulton, of the City of New York, are citizens of the United States, and sole owners of the ship or vessel called the North River Steamboat of Clermont, whereof Samuel Wiswall is at present master, and as he hath sworn he is a citizen of the United States, and that the said ship or vessel was built in the City of New York, in the year 1807, as per enrollment 173 issued at this port on the 3d. And Peter A. Schenck, Surveyor of the Port, having certified that day of September, 1807, now given up, the vessel being enlarged, the said ship or vessel has one deck and two masts, and that her length is 149 ft.; breadth, 17 ft. 11 in.; depth, 7 ft., and that she measures 182 48-95 tons. That she is a square-sterned boat, has square tuck; no quarter galleries and no figurehead. Hands and Seals, May 14,1808. * Filed in the New York Custom House after her enlargement, 1808. II EARLY STEAMBOAT ADVERTISEMENTS The first newspaper advertisement of passenger service by steamboat is the following announcement of the times of departure and the rates of fare on the Clermont: The Public Is Informed How To Take Passage On The Clermont "Sept. 2nd, 1807. "The North River Steamboat will leave Paulus Hook ferry on Friday, 4th of September, at 6 in the morning, and arrive at Albany on Saturday in the...
Author : Barbara Brooks Tomblin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813167043
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Civil War on the Mississippi written by Barbara Brooks Tomblin and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The naval historian presents a “well-written, fast-paced” study of Civil War riverine combat based on the personal accounts of officers and sailors (Civil War News). As one of the most important transportation systems in the country, the Mississippi River became a strategically vital asset to both sides of the Civil War. The Confederacy relied on the river for cotton exportation as well as food and military supplies. The Union sought control of the river not only to disrupt Southern transport, but also to bisect the South as part of the Anaconda Plan. Drawing heavily on the diaries and letters of officers and common sailors, Barbara Brooks Tomblin explores the Union navy’s fight to win control of the Mississippi. Her approach provides fresh insight into major battles such as Memphis and Vicksburg as well as the fascinating perspectives of ordinary sailors who engaged in brown-water warfare. These men speak of going ashore in foraging parties, assisting the surgeon in the amputation of a fellow crewman's arm, and liberating supplies of whiskey from captured enemy vessels. They also offer candid assessments of their commanding officers, observations of the local people living along the river, and their views on the war. The Civil War on the Mississippi provides a comprehensive account of the action on the western rivers as well as a synthesis of vivid first-person accounts from the front lines.
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Total Pages : 960 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thompson Westcott
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Life of John Fitch written by Thompson Westcott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 1857 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674074882
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book River of Dark Dreams written by Walter Johnson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.
Author : David Lear Buckman
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781296801243
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River; Tales and Reminiscences of the Stirring Times That Followed the Introduction of Steam Navigation written by David Lear Buckman and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The First Steamboat Voyage on the Western Waters written by John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories heard as child by author, backed up by documentation, of voyage taken by his sister and her husband, Nicholas J. Roosevelt in 1811.
Author : David Lear Buckman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365145752
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (457 download)
Download or read book Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River written by David Lear Buckman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River: Tales and Reminiscences of the Stirring Times That Followed the Introduction of Steam Navigation The approaching dual celebration of the Ter Centennial of Henry Hudson's discovery of the great river bearing his name, and the Centennial of Robert Fulton's successful application of steam to navigation on that same stream, would seem to warrant the appearance of this little volume. Aside from this fact, the subject is one that calls up many interesting reminiscences on topics that have not heretofore been grouped along the lines the author has endeavored to follow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : James Rumsey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Short Treatise on the Application of Steam written by James Rumsey and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
