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 ...

On Aug. 26, 1791, John Fitch and James Rumsey, rivals battling over claims to the invention, were each granted a federal patent for the steamboat. They devised different systems for their steamboats.

You might say they`ve reinvented the steamboat. Not just any steamboat, mind you. Not the more famous steamboat of Robert Fulton and certainly not the spurious ”first” steamboat supposedly ...

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 ...

WARMINSTER, PA —The Craven Hall Historical Society and the Johnsville Centrifuge & Science Museum will hold a public dedication and ribbon cutting on Sunday. The event takes place at noon on ...

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 ...