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Bobs' Folly: Fulton, Livingston and the Steamboat,Used
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Product DescriptionIn this fascinating, richly illustrated history of the steamboat, Travis Bowman delineates the epic collaboration between the handsome but not entirely successful artist and inventor, Robert Fulton, and the Hudson River Valley aristocrat, Robert R. Livingston. On a sultry summer day in 1807, Fulton and Livingston shocked the world when they sailed their firebreathing contraption, their devil in a sawmill up the Hudson, stopping at Livingston's villa, Clermont, on their way to Albany. Their invention would revolutionize travel, and set the stage for the Industrial Revolution.Bowman, a historian who is the former curator at the Clermont Historic Site in Germantown, N.Y., writes far more than dual biographies: he lays out the history of the steam engine, the tales of competitors on the Hudson River run sailing captains who would stageaccidents to stop the steamboats and who waged a vital legal battle to stop the FultonLivingston steamboat monopoly, setting precedent that stands to this day.Bobs Folly is a mustread for anyone interested in maritime history, in inventors and in American art and science in the period between the Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Romanticism.About the AuthorTravis M. Bowman was the curator of collections at the Clermont State Historic Site from 2001 to 2007. During his last year there, he directed Clermont's loan exhibition on Fulton, Livingston and the invention of the steamboat. He now works for the New York State Historic Preservation Office.
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