The Life of John Fitch : The Inventor of the Steamboat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westcott, Thompson.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steam-navigation--History.

Fitch, John, 1743-1798.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Patavium Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Title page

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE.

List of Illustrations:

CHAPTER I. - INFANCY AND BOYHOOD.

CHAPTER II. - APPRENTICESHIP.-MANHOOD.-MARRIAGE.

CHAPTER III. - THE SILVERSMITH-THE GUNSMITH.

CHAPTER IV. - THE SUTTLER-THE SURVEYOR.

CHAPTER V. - THE INDIAN'S CAPTIVE.

CHAPTER VI. - ADVENTURES AMONG THE SAVAGES.

CHAPTER VII. - THE PRISONER OF WAR IN CANADA.

CHAPTER VIII. - THE EXCHANGE-THE SEA VOYAGE.

CHAPTER IX. - ADVENTURES IN KENTUCKY AND OHIO.

CHAPTER X. - THE INVENTION OF THE STEAMBOAT-JOURNEY TO VIRGINIA.

CHAPTER XI. - THE STEAM-BOAT COMPANY-THE SKIFF STEAM-BOAT, 1786.

CHAPTER XII. - ENCOURAGEMENT BY THE STATES-LARGE STEAM-BOAT COMMENCED.

CHAPTER XIII. - THE FIRST STEAMBOAT FINISHED-SUCCESSFUL TRIAL EXPERIMENT IN 1787.

CHAPTER XIV. - APPLICATION TO CONGRESS-JAMES RUMSEY'S STEAM-BOAT.

CHAPTER XV. - CONTROVERSY WITH RUMSEY.

CHAPTER XVI. - THE SECOND SUCCESSFUL STEAMBOAT OF 1788.

CHAPTER XVII. - NEW MACHINERY-IMPERFECTION OF THE WORK-DESTITUTION OF FITCH-THE PACKET, PASSENGER, AND FREIGHT STEAM-BOAT OF 1790.

CHAPTER XVIII. - COMMENCEMENT OF THE STEAM-BOAT PERSEVERANCE.

CHAPTER XIX. - DISASTERS-LUKEWARMNESS OF THE COMPANY-U.S. PATENT.

CHAPTER XX. - WORK ON THE STEAM-BOAT PERSEVERANCE-ABANDONMENT OF THE SCHEME.

CHAPTER XXI. - FITCH GOES TO FRANCE-HIS RETURN-SUICIDE.

CHAPTER XXII. - STEAM-BOAT EXPERIMENTS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA.

CHAPTER XXIII. - STEAM-BOAT AFFAIRS IN THE UNITED STATES AFTER FULTON'S EXPERIMENTS.

CHAPTER XXIV. - PERSONAL MATTERS-CONCLUSION.

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Other Format:

Print version: Westcott, Thompson The Life of John Fitch

ISBN:

9781805232759

1805232754

OCLC:

1395183766