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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.
Fitch’s real success, however, occurred in 1796 when he tested another ship equipped with a paddle wheel on Collect Pond. On the boat with him was fellow inventor Robert Fulton, Robert R. Livingston, who was the first Chancellor of New York and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and 16-year-old John Hutchings, steering. [7]
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 ...
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.
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).
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John Fitch (inventor) (1743–1798), early American inventor, built the first steamboat in the United States in 1786 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)