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Fulton's Steamboat

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Item No: pdcc01017
Title: Fulton's Steamboat
Additional Title: Fitch's Boat. Oliver Evan's Car. Fulton's Steamboat.-Page 446
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

Illustration depicting three Philadelphia inventions. From the top: Fitch's early steamboat design with several side-mounted oars; Oliver Evan's car, the Oruktor Amphibolos, designed for dredging the city's dockyards; Fulton's steamboat, the first commercially successful steamboat in America.

Page from Watson's Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, published in 1857.


Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.10
Creator Name: Mumford, Thomas Howland, 1816- - Artist
Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler