The Hudson-Fulton celebration, 1909, the fourth annual report of the Hudson-Fulton celebration commission to the Legislature of the state of New York. Transmitted to the Legislature, May twentieth, nineteen ten
Bound with Commemorating the bi-centennial of the first settlement in Lancaster County (1910); Commemoration of the Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851 (1911); Commemoration of Lancaster County in the Revolution (1912); and Founder's Memorial Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Gap, Lancaster, Pa. (1912).
"None of the well-dressed crowd that gathered on the Hudson River side of Lower Manhattan on the hot afternoon of August 17, 1808, could have known the importance of the object they had come to see and, mostly, deride: Robert Fulton's new steamboat, the North River, the boat that is frequently - and wrongly - remembered as the Clermont. But, as Kirkpatrick Sale shows in this biography of Fulton, the North River's successful four-day round-trip to Albany proved a technology that would transform nineteenth-century America, open up the interior to huge waves of settlers, create and sustain industrial and plantation economies in the nation's heartland, and destroy the remaining Indian civilizations and most of the wild lands on which they depended. The North River's four-day trip introduced the machines and culture that marked the birth of the Industrial Revolution in America. The Fire of His Genius tells the story of the extraordinarily driven and ambitious inventor who brought all this about, probing into the undoubted genius of his mind but, too, laying bare the darker side of the man - and the darker side of the American dream that inspired him."--BOOK JACKET.
At First, Everybody Walked--The Conestoga Wagon--Wright's and other Ferries--We did a lot of Canal Business--Arks and Rafts--Fulton Succeeded where Others Failed--Ships Carried Lancaster Names--First Transatlantic Balloon Flight--The Lancaster Turnpike--Bridges Over the Susquehanna--Covered Bridges Give Distinction--The Trolley Era--Early Trains--Old Trains in State Museum--The Horseless Carriage--The Historic Amish Carriage.
Robert Fulton and the "Clermont"; the authoritative story of Robert Fulton's early experiments, persistent efforts, and historic achievements. Containing many of Fulton's hitherto unpublished letters, drawings, and pictures
