[Rarebooks] FS: 1849 Steam Powered Boat Ship Experiments - James Rumsey Re-Issue

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “A Short Treatise on the application of Steam, whereby is clearly 
shewn from Actual Experiments that Steam may be applied to propel Boats 
or Vessels of any burthen against rapid currents with great velocity”

By James Rumsey.
Printed in Albany in 1849, though it states that it is printed in 
Philadelphia in 1788.

DISCUSSION: A reprint of an important chapter in an early American 
engineering/scientific feud. John Fitch and James Rumsey each invented a 
steam-powered boat and then proceeded to fight over who had the idea 
first. Rumsey notes here in his introductory material that he had 
published a pamphlet in Virginia “to prove the authors prior right of 
applying steam, to propel boats &c. as well as to establish the 
principles on which he has done it, a few copies were then thought 
sufficient for that purpose, but as Mr. Fitch intends to answer the 
pamphlet, it is therefore necessary to re-publish as much of it as 
respects Mr. Fitch, which is done with no other variation, from the 
original, than to correct a few of the omissions and mistakes that were 
introduced into the first publication." And so on, and on, and on.

DESCRIPTION: Disbound pamphlet. 6”x9”, paginated 1014-1102. Lacking the 
frontispiece.

CONDITION NOTES: Some soil and wear -please see the photos.

PRICE: $65-

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