H. Richardson gives a sketch of the career of?John Fitch: Patriot, Martyr, Pioneer Steamboat Inventor?. Fitch was born in 1743 and died by his own hand in 1798, having during the last fifteen ...

After more than three years of planning, the John Fitch Steamboat Museum, located on the grounds of historic Craven Hall in Warminster, was unveiled Saturday morning in front a group of local ...

Recently I discovered something new about a Warminster man who invented the steamboat and a workable submarine. He also conceived the first car while strolling through town. John Fitch “just ...

The date seems fitting since, according to the Library of Congress, it was on Aug. 22, 1787, that inventor John Fitch first demonstrated his new invention, the steamboat. On that day Fitch tested ...