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Fulfillment of Three Remarkable Prophecies Development of Steamboats & Railroad
Fulfillment of Three Remarkable Prophecies Relating to the Development of Steamboat Navigation & Railroad Transportation by Henry Whittemore
Hard Cover Name written on first page, page 13 handwritten note, and at least two notes on other pages
80 pages
Copyright 1909
CONTENTS
Prophecy of John Fitch
Prophecy of Oliver Evans
Prophecy of William C Redfield
Chapter 1 Early Experiments in Steamboat Navigation
Chapter 2 James Rumseys Claim to the Discovery of Steamboat Navigation
Chapter 3 Claims of Nathan Read, Nicholas Roosevelt, Capt Samuel Morey & Elijah Ormsbee
Chapter 4 Inventions of Col John Stevens and Robert L Stevens in Steam Navigation
Chapter 5 Robert Fulton His Successful Efforts in the Development of Steam Navigation with the Assistance of Robert L Livingston
Chapter 6 Improvements n Steamboats and Increased Facilities for Steam Navigation on the Hudson River
Chapter 7 Rivalry Between Steamboat Companies Steamboat Disasters Great Improvements in Steamboat Construction
Hudson River Day Line
The Peoples Line
History of the Fall River Line and the Navigation of Long Island Sound
Part 2 Railroad Transportation
Chapter 1 Early Experiments in Locomotives and Railroads, Oliver Evans and his Eructor Amphibolis, Benjamin Dearborns Patent for Steam Carriage 1819, Steam Carriage in Kentucky 1819, The Walking Horse 1822, The Mohawk and Hudson RR Co, The First Locomotive in America, The Stourbridge Lion
Chapter 2 B&O RR, Locomotive Tom Thumb, Charleston SC RR, First Locomotive, Best Friend, Second Locomotive, West Point, Pontchartrain RR of LA, Inventions and Improvements in RR Construction by Col John Stevens and his Son, of Hoboken NJ
Chapter 3 Railroad Development in the Empire State, Progress of Railroads in the State, Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, Catskill and Ithaca RR, Canajoharie and Catskill RR, Cayuga and Susquehannah RR, Saratoga and Schenectady RR
Chapter 4
Rensselaer and Saratoga RR, Saratoga and Washington RR, Auburn and Syracuse RR, Syracuse and Utica RR, Oswego and Syracuse RR, Troy and Greenbush RR, Watertown and Rome RR, New York and Albany and New York and Harlem RR, Albany and West Stockbridge Mass RR
Chapter 5 The New York and Erie Railroad
Chapter 6 Chemung RR, Buffalo & Erie, Buffalo and Niagara, Attica and Hornellsville, Buffalo and Rochester, Buffalo and NYC, Buffalo and State Line, Brooklyn and Jamaica, Hudson River, NY and New Haven, New York Central, Boston and Albany, New Burgh Branch of New York and Erie, Plattsburg and Montreal, Union
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