Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream by Kirkpatrick Sale

Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream

Kirkpatrick Sale

256 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography historical science technology informative medium-paced
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None of the spectators who gathered on the Hudson River shore on August 17, 1808, could have known the importance of the object they had come to see and, mostly, deride: Robert Fulton's new steamboat. But as Kirkpatrick Sale shows in this remarkab...

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