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Life of John Fitch : the inventor of the steam-boat (1857)

Westcott, Thompson · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co. · leaf 414

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always inthe water. This plan was laid before the AmericanPhilosophical Society, with a curious drawing, on the21st of July, 1809, and ia to be found in the^MS.volume entitled, Mechanics, Machinery, Engineering,&c.^ Duers second letter to Golden, Appendix. In 1793, Henry Voight discovered a… … i^vv 404 LIFE OF JOHN FITCH. On the 9tli of NoTember, isis, Eernando Fairfax,of Washington, D. C, published an advertisement inthe Aurora, printed at Philadelphia, notifying all per-sons interested, that authority was vested in him bythe holder of the oldest patent-rights for steam navi-gation in…

Fitch, John, 1743-1798 · Steam-navigation

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