BOOK
Title:
A plan wherein the power of steam is fully shewn, by a new constructed machine, for propelling boats or vessels, of any burthen, against the most rapid streams or rivers, with great velocity: Also, a machine, constructed on similar philosophical principles, by which water may be raised for grist or saw-mills, watering of meadows, &c. &c
Creator:
Rumsey, James, 1743?-1792
Extent:
20, [2] p. ; duodecimo.
BOOK
Title:
Account of some early proposals for steam navigation
Creators:
Rigaud, Stephen Peter, 1774-1839 | Ashmolean Society
Publication:
Printed by S. Collingwood, for the Ashmolean Society, Oxford, 1838.
Call #:
629.1325 C68 NO.21
BOOK
Title:
An Elementary treatise on steam, more particularly as applicable to the purposes of navigation, with an familiar description of the engine
Publication:
G. Poore, Plymouth, 1837.
Extent:
x, [4], [15]-259 p. : illus., tables ; 23 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Report of the Philadelphia Committee on the subject of transatlantic steam navigation. February 7, 1839
Creator:
Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844
Publication:
Printed by John C. Clark, Philadelphia, 1839.
Notes:
Signed: N. Biddle, Chairman.
Call #:
Pam. v.744, no.12
BOOK
Title:
The birth of the steamboat
Creator:
Spratt, H. Philip (Hereward Philip)
Publication:
C. Griffin, London, [1958]
Notes:
Includes bibilography.
Extent:
149 p. : front. (port.), facsims. ; 20 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Speech of William H. Seward, for the Collins steamers, in Senate of the United States, April 27, 1852
Creator:
Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872
Publication:
Buell and Blanchard, Washington, 1852?]
Notes:
At head of title: American steam navigation.
BOOK
Title:
Treatise on the mechanical means by which vessels are propelled by steam power
Publication:
Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1868.
Notes:
Last 24 pages publisher's advertisements.
Extent:
viii, 37, 24 p. : diagrs. ; 22 cm.
BOOK
Title:
From the Potomac to the Thames: being the progress of one James Rumsey (1743-1792)
Creators:
King, Thomson. | Newcomen Society in North America
Publication:
Printed at the Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1943]
Notes:
At head of title: The Newcomen Society. American Branch. "Delivered at ... Baltimore, Maryland ... on June 24, 1948." "First printing: June 1948."
Extent:
32 p. : il. ; octavo.
BOOK
Title:
The First steam screw propeller boats to navigate the waters of any county
Creator:
Stevens, Francis B. (Francis Bowes), d. 1908
Publication:
Hoboken, N.J.], 1893.
Notes:
Reprinted from the Stevens Indicator, v.10, April 1893.
Extent:
30 p. : illus., diagrs. ; 24 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Le Marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans: inventeur de l'application de la vapeur a la navigation
Creator:
Prost, J.-C.-Alfred.
Publication:
E. Leroux, Paris, 1889.
Extent:
319 p. : fold. geneal. table ; 26 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Memoir on steamboats of the United States of America
Creators:
Marestier, (Jean-Baptiste)M, 1779 or 80-1832 | Withington, Sidney, 1884-
Publication:
Marine Historical Association, Mystic, Conn, 1957.
Notes:
Reprint of Mémoire sur les bateaux a vapeur des États-Unis d'Amérique, Paris, 1824.
Extent:
viii, 90 p. ; 25 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Abstract of an address on ocean steam navigation, and naval architecture, delivered before the Board of Trade, Philadelphia, May 1861
Creator:
Baldwin, I. Palmer.
Publication:
Crissy & Markley, Printers, Philadelphia, 1862.
Call #:
Pam. v.744, no.13
Extent:
16 p. : front. (double) ; octavo.
BOOK
Title:
Whereas John Fitch, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, has proposed a machine for promoting navigation ... we the subscribers being willing to promote ... do promise to pay said Fitch ... provided said Fitch shall have ready to be delivered to us ... so many
Publication:
Richmond, Va, 1786?]
Notes:
A "subscription paper" printed and distributed by John Fitch to members of the Virginia Assembly in an attempt to raise funds for the construction of his first steamboat. See: Westcott, T. Life of John Fitch ... 1857, p.143.
Extent:
Broadside ; 13" x 8 1/8"
BOOK
Title:
The power of steam: an illustrated history of the world's steam age
Creator:
Briggs, Asa, 1921-
Publication:
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1982.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Extent:
208 p. : (col.) illus., (col.) facsims., ports. ; 26 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Remarks on John Fitch's reply to James Rumsey's pamphlet
Publication:
James, Philadelphia, 1788.
Extent:
XVI, 16 p. ; octavo.
BOOK
Title:
Railway locomotion, and steam naviation; their principles and practice
Publication:
John Williams and Co, London, 1847.
Extent:
[i], 181 p. ; 23 cm.
BOOK
Title:
Steam navigation and its relation to the commerce of Canada and the United States
Creator:
Croil, James, 1821-1916
Publication:
W. Briggs; [etc., etc.], Toronto, 1898.
Extent:
xiv, [3], 18-381 p. : front. (ports.), illus., ports. ; 19 1/2 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The Steam engine, steam navigation, roads, and railways, explained and illustrated
Creator:
Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859
Publication:
Taylor, Walton and Maberly, London, 1851.
Extent:
xi, 422 p. : illus. ; duodecimo.
BOOK
Title:
A lecture on the late improvements in steam navigation and the arts of naval warfare, with a brief notice of Ericcson's caloric engine: Delivered before the Boston Lyceum
Creator:
Sargent, John Osborne, 1811-1891
Publication:
Wiley and Putnam, New-York and London, 1844.
BOOK
Title:
History of the steam-boat case, lately discussed by counsel before the legislature of New Jersey: comprised in a letter to a gentleman at Washington
Creators:
Stockton, Lucius Horatio, d. 1835 | Ogden, Aaron, 1756-1839
Publication:
Lucius Horatio Stockton], Trenton, 1815.
Notes:
Caption title: Steam-boat case. Published anonymously. By L.H. Stockton. Cf. DAB (under Ogden, Aaron) "Printed for the author." Biographical sketches of the speakers, Aaron Ogden, et al.: 4 p. at end. Not in Shaw-Shoemaker.
Call #:
Pam. v.678, no.11
Extent:
48, 4 p. ; octavo.
