James Rumsey: The Inventor of the Steamboat (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from James Rumsey: The Inventor of the Steamboat

In the preface he feelingly refers to the difficulties, hindrances and disappointments which are the common experience of those who have had the good fortune to dis cover a new machine, or to make any material improve ments on such as have already been discovered.

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