[Rarebooks] FS: Early American Technology: Fulton's Treatise on Canal Navigation, 1796

[Charles Agvent]

FULTON, Robert. A TREATISE ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF CANAL NAVIGATION; 
EXHIBITING THE NUMEROUS ADVANTAGES TO BE DERIVED FROM SMALL CANALS... 
London: I. & J. Taylor, 1796. First Edition. WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE 
MACHINERY FOR FACILITATING CONVEYANCE BY WATER THROUGH THE MOST 
MOUNTAINOUS COUNTRIES, INDEPENDENT OF LOCKS AND AQUEDUCTS: including 
observations on the great importance of water communications, with 
thoughts on, and designs for, aqueducts and bridges of iron and wood. 
Quarto (8" x 10") bound in later navy blue cloth. xvi, 144 pages. 
Illustrated with seventeen plates after original drawings executed by 
the author. A significant book in the history of early American 
engineering and technology. In addition to developing steamboats, Fulton 
also did much to advance the cause of inland navigation, this work being 
his chief argument and the only substantial work ever published by this 
pioneer of steam navigation, though Fulton's pamphlet TORPEDO WAR AND 
SUBMARINE EXPLOSIONS, published in 1810, would revolutionize naval 
warfare. In addition to chapters on canals, there are also chapters on 
boats, railroads, and bridges. Howes F-418; Kress B.3129; Sabin 26201. 
Lacking, as usual, the ads. Also no portrait, though no copy other than 
that listed in Sabin has been documented with one. Old and neat paper 
repair to top margins of title page and contents page, not affecting 
text. Near Fine in sturdy binding.
A copy of this book was sent to George Washington. 		$2,000.00

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