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John Fitch (January 21, 1743 – July 2, 1798) was an American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur, and engineer. He was most famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States. The first boat, 45 feet long, was tested on the Delaware River by Fitch and his design assistant Steven Pagano.
John Cooper Fitch (August 4, 1917 in Indianapolis, Indiana – October 31, 2012) was an American racing driver and inventor. He was the first American to race automobiles successfully in Europe in the post-war era.
John Boyd Dunlop: 1840 Pneumatic tire [280] 2006 John H. Thomas: 1907 Fiberglass [281] 2006 John Harvey Kellogg: 1852 Breakfast cereal [282] 2006 John Landis Mason: 1832 Mason jar [283] 2006 John Wesley Hyatt: 1837 Celluloid [284] 2006 John Fitch: 1743 Steamboat [285] 2006 John Stevens: 1749 Steam-powered transportation [286] 2006 Joseph ...
In August 1787, in the midst of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, John Fitch demonstrated his new steamboat on the Delaware River. Most delegates took a break to go observe the ...
John Fitch, Massachusetts settler for whom Fitchburg, Massachusetts is named; John Fitch (racing driver) (1917–2012), racing driver, inventor of innovative safety devices and descendant of John Fitch (inventor) John A. Fitch (1881–1959), writer and professor of labor relations; John H. Fitch, the eponym of YMCA Camp Fitch in Springfield ...
John Fitch won the Sports Car division in one of the stock Corvettes, and Betty Skelton took second place in the other, while Duntov won the Modified Sports Car division in the modified car. [3] Four Corvettes, all with the new SR package and one with additional modifications including an enlarged engine, appeared in the 1956 12 Hours of Sebring.
The Men Who Built America (also known as The Innovators: The Men Who Built America in some international markets) is an eight-hour, four-part miniseries docudrama which was originally broadcast on the History Channel in autumn 2012, and on the History Channel UK in fall 2013.
The John Seely Brown Stock Index From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when John Seely Brown joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 163.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.