This preowned, hardback book with dust jacket and 143 pages was written by Richard Armstrong and published by Ernest Benn in 1975.
The author relates how the early pioneers of steam travel faced ignorance and prejudice with a kind of reforming determination. First came the inventors, foremost among them Thomas Newcomen and James Watt.
Soon afterwards Fitch built a paddle steamer to run on the River Delaware as early as the 1790s,
From then experiments multiplied on both sides of the Atlantic......