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title: 'John Fitch, the Inventor of Steam Navigation'
type: pdf
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authors:
- 'Douglas Kellogg Turner'
date: 1909-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Autobiography and Biography'
- 'History (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 16'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/turner-1909-john-fitch-the-inventor-of-steam-navigation
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# John Fitch, the Inventor of Steam Navigation

Biography of John Fitch (b.1743), pioneer of steam navigation—detailing his self-taught experiments building the first American steamboat, trials on the Delaware (1787), and funding struggles.

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