Download or read book A History of the Steamboat Washington written by John R. Bowman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Night Boat on the Potomac written by Harry Jones and published by Steamship Historical Society. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Steam boat Case Lately Discussed by Counsel Before the Legislature of New Jersey written by and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steamboat Town written by Thomas H. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early History of the Town of La Conner, Washington
Download or read book A History of the Steam boat Case Lately Discussed by Counsel Before the Legislature of New Jersey written by Lucius Horatio Stockton and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lloyd s Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters written by James T. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Hudson River Day Line written by Donald C. Ringwald and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic and written catalog of 350 buildings in the historic village of Hudson in Ohio's Western Reserve. A brief history by The Librarian and Curator of The Hudson Library and Historical Society sets the buildings' photographs and descriptive text in historical context. Gives a list of the buildings by construction date. A thorough and heavily illustrated history of steamboats from Robert Fulton to the present. A book for buffs and historians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Lloyd s Steamboat Directory and Disasters on the Western Waters Containing the History of the First Application of Steam as a Motive Power written by James T. Lloyd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lloyd's Steamboat Directory, and Disasters on the Western Waters, Containing the History of the First Application of Steam as a Motive Power: The Lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton, Likeness Engravings of Their First Steamboats Portrait of John Fitch, 18 Fitch's Philadelphia Boat, 21 Fae Simile of Fitch's Writing, Portrait of Rob't Fulton. 26 Fulton's first Amer. Boat, 29 Early Nav on West. Wat'rs 33 First West n Steamboat. 42 Enterprise on her lst Trip, 43 View of Pittsburgh, 52 Map of Ohio river, No. 1, 54 Exp. Of the Washington, 56 Map of Ohio River, No. 2, 58 Exp. Of the Constitution, 59 Map of Ohio River, No. 3, 60 Sinking of the Tennessee, 61 Map otio River, no. 4, 64 Exp. Of the Teche. 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.
Download or read book A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat written by John Hazelhurst Boneval Latrobe and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1828, my law office was in the Athenæum building, so called, afterwards destroyed by fire. My business was scant, for I had but recently been admitted to the bar. I was ruminating, no doubt, upon my prospects, when the door was opened, and a handsome, elderly man, of distinguished presence, entered and asked me, in rich unctuous tones, and with a strong Irish accent, if my name was Latrobe, and if I recollected him. His face was familiar, and so was his voice; but I could not place him. Seeing that I hesitated, he said, "and it would be strange if you did, for you were but a bit of a child when you last saw me in your father's house. I am John Devereux Delacy," and he rolled out his sounding name as though he was proud of it. I recollected him then. Fourteen or fifteen years back it had been his fancy to pet me as a child. It was this that had impressed him on my memory. "Ah, you know me now," he said: "you remember when I used to be so much with Fulton and Roosevelt and Chancellor Livingston and Dr. Mitchell, at the Navy Yard house." This was the name given to my father's residence in Washington, not far from the Navy Yard.
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.
Download or read book Steamboat Rock written by John M. Kemble and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising out of Banks Lake in the heart of Grand Coulee is Steamboat Rock State Park, a destination for thousands of vacationers every year. A geological wonder that was once an island in the diverted bed of the Columbia River, Steamboat Rock spent centuries landlocked in Washington State, finally becoming a beacon and a crossroad for travelers of the barren landscape. When the pioneers arrived, they found a rugged frontier and faced many hardships establishing a community, only to have it all washed away with the waves of progress and the building of the Grand Coulee Dam. This is the story of the people who settled the Steamboat Rock area, the land they fought hard to tame, and the inevitable outcome of man versus progress. With this book, uncover mysteries and unlock the story of Steamboat Rock.
Download or read book Steamboat written by M. S. Kline and published by . This book was released on 1985-12-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Land Was Ours written by Andrew W. Kahrl and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans. Blending social and environmental history, Andrew W. Kahrl tells the story of African American–owned beaches in the twentieth century. By reconstructing African American life along the coast, Kahrl demonstrates just how important these properties were for African American communities and leisure, as well as for economic empowerment, especially during the era of the Jim Crow South. However, in the wake of the civil rights movement and amid the growing prosperity of the Sunbelt, many African Americans fell victim to effective campaigns to dispossess black landowners of their properties and beaches. Kahrl makes a signal contribution to our understanding of African American landowners and real-estate developers, as well as the development of coastal capitalism along the southern seaboard, tying the creation of overdeveloped, unsustainable coastlines to the unmaking of black communities and cultures along the shore. The result is a skillful appraisal of the ambiguous legacy of racial progress in the Sunbelt.
Download or read book Farewell Old Mount Washington written by Edward H. Blackstone and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who Really Invented the Steamboat written by Jack L. Shagena and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engineer retired from aerospace electronics, and a historian, Shagena one day ran across a roadside marker identifying someone other than Robert Fulton as the inventor of the steamboat. He had to investigate. He found that most people who have written about the subject have been historians or biographers without a technical background, so he loo
Download or read book Hudson River Lighthouses written by Hudson River Maritime Museum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighthouses were built on the Hudson River in New York between 1826 to 1921 to help guide freight and passenger traffic. One of the most famous was the iconic Statue of Liberty. This fascinating history with photos will bring the time of traffic along the river alive. Set against the backdrop of purple mountains, lush hillsides, and tidal wetlands, the lighthouses of the Hudson River were built between 1826 and 1921 to improve navigational safety on a river teeming with freight and passenger traffic. Unlike the towering beacons of the seacoasts, these river lighthouses were architecturally diverse, ranging from short conical towers to elaborate Victorian houses. Operated by men and women who at times risked and lost their lives in service of safe navigation, these beacons have overseen more than a century of extraordinary technological and social change. Of the dozens of historic lighthouses and beacons that once dotted the Hudson River, just eight remain, including the iconic Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor's great monument to freedom and immigration, which served as an official lighthouse between 1886 and 1902. Hudson River Lighthouses invites readers to explore these unique icons and their fascinating stories.
