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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 Fitch had launched the first rudimentary steamboat onto the Delaware River in the late 1780s, [41] and the Philadelphia waterworks was by 1802 operating two low-pressure steam engines to pump water from the Schuylkill River, but these were rare examples and most instances of this new technology were to be found in Europe. [42]
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 ...
October 27 – The first of The Federalist papers, a series of essays, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay calling for ratification of the U.S. Constitution, is published in a New York paper. December 7 – Delaware ratifies the Constitution and becomes the first U.S. state (see History of Delaware).
The 1780s (pronounced "seventeen-eighties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1780, and ended on December 31, 1789. A period widely considered as transitional between the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution , the 1780s saw the inception of modern philosophy .
In addition to receiving a British patent for a single-span iron bridge, Paine developed a smokeless candle [99] and worked with inventor John Fitch in developing steam engines. In 1797, Paine lived in Paris with Nicholas Bonneville and his wife, Marguerite Brazier. As well as Bonneville's other controversial guests, Paine aroused the ...
c. July – John Wilkinson launches an iron barge in the English Midlands. [5] August 27 – Launching a 45-foot (14 m) steam-powered craft on the Delaware River, John Fitch demonstrates the first United States patent for his design. December 3 – James Rumsey demonstrates a water-jet propelled boat on the Potomac.
April 29–May 8 – The first American ships reach Japan, brigantine Lady Washington captained by John Kendrick of Boston, and the brig Grace. [1] [2] August 26 – John Fitch is granted a patent for the steamboat in the United States.