The Life of John Fitch
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The Life of John Fitch

The Inventor of the Steamboat

  1. 305 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Life of John Fitch

The Inventor of the Steamboat

About this book

Fascinating biography of engineer and inventor of the Steamboat: John Fitch.
"In this narration are sketched the early career of the subject of the biography; his Revolutionary services to the State of New Jersey; his adventures in the wilds of Kentucky and Ohio; his captivity by Indians, and as a British prisoner; his exertions to obtain means to construct a steam-boat; his trials, failures, difficulties in building machinery, and his successful application of steam to the propulsion of three steam-boats on the Delaware; the abandonment of a fourth when nearly finished; the propulsion of a steam-boat at New York; his mortification at the lukewarmness of his countrymen as to the merit of his invention, and his final suicide, to escape from an existence persecuted by continual misfortunes."-Introduction.

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Information

Publisher
Patavium Publishing
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781805232759
Topic
History
Subtopic
American Civil War History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title page
  2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  3. PREFACE.
  4. List of Illustrations:
  5. CHAPTER I. — INFANCY AND BOYHOOD.
  6. CHAPTER II. — APPRENTICESHIP.—MANHOOD.—MARRIAGE.
  7. CHAPTER III. — THE SILVERSMITH—THE GUNSMITH.
  8. CHAPTER IV. — THE SUTTLER—THE SURVEYOR.
  9. CHAPTER V. — THE INDIAN’S CAPTIVE.
  10. CHAPTER VI. — ADVENTURES AMONG THE SAVAGES.
  11. CHAPTER VII. — THE PRISONER OF WAR IN CANADA.
  12. CHAPTER VIII. — THE EXCHANGE—THE SEA VOYAGE.
  13. CHAPTER IX. — ADVENTURES IN KENTUCKY AND OHIO.
  14. CHAPTER X. — THE INVENTION OF THE STEAMBOAT—JOURNEY TO VIRGINIA.
  15. CHAPTER XI. — THE STEAM-BOAT COMPANY—THE SKIFF STEAM-BOAT, 1786.
  16. CHAPTER XII. — ENCOURAGEMENT BY THE STATES—LARGE STEAM-BOAT COMMENCED.
  17. CHAPTER XIII. — THE FIRST STEAMBOAT FINISHED—SUCCESSFUL TRIAL EXPERIMENT IN 1787.
  18. CHAPTER XIV. — APPLICATION TO CONGRESS—JAMES RUMSEY’S STEAM-BOAT.
  19. CHAPTER XV. — CONTROVERSY WITH RUMSEY.
  20. CHAPTER XVI. — THE SECOND SUCCESSFUL STEAMBOAT OF 1788.
  21. CHAPTER XVII. — NEW MACHINERY—IMPERFECTION OF THE WORK—DESTITUTION OF FITCH—THE PACKET, PASSENGER, AND FREIGHT STEAM-BOAT OF 1790.
  22. CHAPTER XVIII. — COMMENCEMENT OF THE STEAM-BOAT PERSEVERANCE.
  23. CHAPTER XIX. — DISASTERS—LUKEWARMNESS OF THE COMPANY—U.S. PATENT.
  24. CHAPTER XX. — WORK ON THE STEAM-BOAT PERSEVERANCE—ABANDONMENT OF THE SCHEME.
  25. CHAPTER XXI. — FITCH GOES TO FRANCE—HIS RETURN—SUICIDE.
  26. CHAPTER XXII. — STEAM-BOAT EXPERIMENTS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA.
  27. CHAPTER XXIII. — STEAM-BOAT AFFAIRS IN THE UNITED STATES AFTER FULTON’S EXPERIMENTS.
  28. CHAPTER XXIV. — PERSONAL MATTERS—CONCLUSION.