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How Philadelphia’s John Fitch launched America’s first steamboat on the Delaware River in 1787
Long before Robert Fulton became a household name, a lesser-known inventor was already churning up the Delaware River. In ...
The first American steamboat set sail from Philadelphia – starting a regular schedule between Philly and Burlington, NJ ...
In the years after the Revolutionary War, Philadelphia was the place to be for riverboat technology. And it just so happened ...
On Aug. 26, 1791, John Fitch and James Rumsey, rivals battling over claims to the invention, were each granted a federal patent for the steamboat. They devised different systems for their steamboats.
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