The John Fitch Steamboat Museum will be open to the public the second Sunday of each month from noon to 3 p.m. Group tours will be given by reservation. For more information, ...

IN the June issue of Mechanical Engineering, Mr. W. 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 ...

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.

The next year, however, John Fitch and Robert Fulton received a patent for their larger vessel. In 1806, Fitch and Hudson successfully sailed their steamboat, The Clermont, up the Hudson River.

This article was originally published with the title “ John Fitch's Steamboat Experiment on Collect Pond ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 44 No. 23 (June 1881), p. 359 doi:10.1038 ...

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 ...