title: Steamboats Come True: American Inventors in Action
author: James T. Flexner
description: The answer to the question who invented the steamboat? makes exceptionally good reading. Flexner recounts steps that led to the steamboat as an accomplished fact, and recreates the living personalities of Fitch, Rumsey, and Fulton as they reacted to the times, their environment, and the inventive urge within them. (<i>Library Journal</i>)
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  Stories of Inventors
  
  
  INTRODUCTION
  
  HOW GUGLIELMO MARCONI TELEGRAPHS WITHOUT WIRES
  
  SANTOS-DUMONT AND HIS AIR-SHIP
  
  HOW A FAST TRAIN IS RUN
  
  HOW AUTOMOBILES WORK
  
  THE FASTEST STEAMBOATS
  
  THE LIFE-SAVERS AND THEIR APPARATUS
  
  MOVING PICTURES
  
  BRIDGE BUILDERS AND SOME OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS
  
  SUBMARINES IN WAR AND PEACE
  
  LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONY
  
  A MACHINE THAT THINKS
  
  HOW HEAT PRODUCES COLD
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Stories of Inventors
  
  
  ### Russell Doubleday
  
  
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  * INTRODUCTION
  
  
  * HOW GUGLIELMO MARCONI TELEGRAPHS WITHOUT WIRES
  
  
  * SANTOS-DUMONT AND HIS AIR-SHIP
  
  
  * HOW A FAST TRAIN IS RUN
  
  
  * HOW AUTOMOBILES WORK
  
  
  * THE FASTEST STEAMBOATS
  
  
  * THE LIFE-SAVERS AND THEIR APPARATUS
  
  
  * MOVING PICTURES
  
  
  * BRIDGE BUILDERS AND SOME OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS
  
  
  * SUBMARINES IN WAR AND PEACE
  
  
  * LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONY
  
  
  * A MACHINE THAT THINKS
  
  
  * HOW HE