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JOHN FITCH
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JOHN FITCH'S STEAMBOAT AT PHILADELPHIA
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1609 HUDSON-FULTON 1807
MANHATTAN SERIES"-sixteen Hudson-Fulton Post Cards published
by The Churchman Company, 434 Lafayette Street, New York, N. Y.
Built in
JOHN FITCH'S STEAMBOAT.
Philadelphia, in 1786, and made several experi-
mental excursions on the Delaware. She had one
cylinder, 12 inches in diameter, with a 3-foot
stroke. Each revolution of the axis moved 12
oars or paddles, 5% feet. As six of the paddles
were raised in the water, six more entered.
"John Fitch" is known as the first boat successfully
propelled by steam in America. Fitch was a man
of great mechanical resources and inventive powers.
Lack of recognition drove him to ill health and his
death from an overdose of medicine, July, 1798,
at Bardstown, Ky.
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