A history of the growth of the steam-engine (1878)
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 265
no boat on the river could hold way with us. InJune of that year it was placed as a passenger-boat on aline from Philadelphia to Burlington, Bristol, Bordentown,and Trenton, occasionally leaving that route to take excur-sions to Wilmington and Chester. During this period, theboat probably ran… … Fio. Tl.—John Fitch, 1796. patent from the United States. The boat was never com-pleted, although he received his patent, after a long andspirited contest with other claimants, on the 26th of August,1791, and Fitch lost all hope of success. He went toFrance in 1793, hoping to obtaia the privilege…
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