Inventors in Action: The Story of the Steamboat

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By -- James Thomas Flexner

Published by -- Collier Books, New York, 1962, 352 Pages, First Collier Edition, Mass-Market Paperback, 7.1" X 4.25" X .8", 9 oz.

[BACK COVER]

"Do you know that: 

-All the mechanical necessities for a steamboat had been invented a quarter of a century before they were combined in a successful boat? 

-The world's first great steamboat inventor, captured by Indians, almost deserted civilization to become a member of a tribe? 

-A steamboat traveled several thousand miles on a regular schedule seventeen years before Robert Fulton launched his first boat? 

In this entertaining and lucid book James Thomas Flexner, the distinguished historian-writer, author of Doctors on Horseback and The Benedict Arnold Case, gives us the intriguing story in its entirety; as one critic said: "The story of the steamboats never needs to be done again." 

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