Stanton's American Steam Vessels

Stanton's American Steam Vessels
Author: Samuel Ward Stanton
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2003-01-14
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780486423302

Expert renderings of more than 250 vessels that sailed American coastal waters, rivers, and Great Lakes. Full-length view of each vessel; information on length of hull, type of engine and boiler, and size of paddle wheels or propellers. Includes the Alabama, Iron Queen, Monitor, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jefferson, many more. 488 black-and-white illustrations.

S.S. Savannah

S.S. Savannah
Author: Frank Osborn Braynard
Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1963
Genre: Transportation
ISBN:

Steamboats

Steamboats
Author: Karl Zimmermann
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781590784341

Traces the development of steamboats.

The Most Powerful Idea in the World

The Most Powerful Idea in the World
Author: William Rosen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226726347

"The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution." -- Back cover.