In the years after the Revolutionary War, Philadelphia was the place to be for riverboat technology. And it just so happened that in April 1785, Connecticut-born inventor John Fitch — whose previous ...

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.

Recently I discovered something new about a Warminster man who invented the steamboat and a workable submarine. He also conceived the first car while strolling through town. John Fitch “just missed ...

Architect of the Capitol, "Compilation of works of art and other objects in the United States Capitol," Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965. siris_ari_253477 ...