Article ID: CBB992526531

Racing to Build the Fastest Steamboats (Winter 2011)

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White, John H., Jr. (Author)


American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Volume: 25
Issue: 4

ISSN: 8756-7296

Publication Date: Winter 2011
Journal Abbreviation: AHIT
Physical Details: No pages for on-line version.
Language: English

With the introduction of the steam engine, the Hudson River corridor became a hotbed of steamboat innovation -- and gave birth to the world's fastest vessels.

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Authors & Contributors
Usenyuk-Kravchuk, Svetlana
Nikita Klyusov
Charles P. Caldes
Burgess, Douglas R., Jr.
Colwell, Mary
Brian Craig Miller
Journals
IA. The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology
The Journal of Transport History
Ferrum
Railroad History
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
Publishers
Lion Books
Città del Silenzio
Journal Square Publishing
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yale University Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
Concepts
Steamships
Hudson River
Business history
Railroads
Steamships, Paddle-Wheel
Ships and Shipping, Merchant
People
Watt, James, Jr.
Muir, John
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Southern states (U.S.)
New York (U.S.)
New Jersey (U.S.)
Lachine Canal
Institutions
Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)
Boulton Watt & Co.
Escher-Wyss
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
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