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Language: English
Published by Book Sales, 1984
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- Title
- Steamboats Come True: American Inventors in Action
- Author
- Flexner, James Thomas
- Publisher
- Book Sales
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- 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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aThe answer to the question awho invented the steamboat?a makes exceptionally good reading. Flexner recounts steps that led to the steamboat as an accomplished fact, and recreates the living personalities of Fitch, Rumsey, and Fulton as they reacted to the times, their environment, and the inventive urge within them.a
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