Fitch, John, 1743-1798
John Fitch American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer (1743–1798)
Fitch, John
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- 100 1 _ ‡a Fitch, John ‡d 1743-1798
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- 100 1 _ ‡a Fitch, John, ‡d 1743-1798
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- 100 0 _ ‡a John Fitch ‡c American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer (1743–1798)
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- 551 _ _ ‡a Bardstown, Ky. ‡4 orts ‡4 https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#placeOfDeath
- 500 1 _ ‡a Cochrane, Josephine Garis ‡d 1839-1913 ‡4 bezf ‡4 https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#familialRelationship ‡e Beziehung familiaer
- 551 _ _ ‡a East Windsor, Conn. ‡4 ortg ‡4 https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#placeOfBirth
Works
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Annals of the Army of the Cumberland: Comprising biographies, descriptions of departments, accounts of expeditions, skirmishes, and battles; also its police record of spies, smugglers, and prominent rebel emissaries | |
Estados Unidos. NE. | |
An explanation for keeping a ship's traverse at sea, by the columbian ready reckoner. By John Fitch. | |
John Fitch papers | |
A Map of the north west parts of the United States of America | |
Original steam-boat supported | |
Plan of Mr. Fitch's steam boat | |
Plan wherein the power of steam is fully shewn | |
Reply to James Rumsey's pamphlet | |
[Rysunek okolicznościowy] / Dominikowska Celina. - 1884. | |
Short account of the origin of steam boats, written in 1810, and now committed to press | |
To the honorable representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : The petition and remonstrance of John Fitch, of the city of Philadelphia. Respectfully sheweth, that your petitioner hath seen the printed bill for granting to James Rumsey certain inventions. | |
Whereas John Fitch, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has proposed a machine for promoting navigation : with other useful purposes, which has been generally approved by all men of science, ... We the subscribers being willing to promote so laudable an undertaking; do promise to pay the said Fitch, or order the sums against our respective names, provided said Fitch, shall have ready to be delivered to us at [blank] in the [blank] of [blank] by the [blank] of [blank] next, so many of his maps of the N.W. parts of the United States, as shall answer to the sums subscribed by us. N.B. Said Fitch pledges his word that the one half of the money shall be applied toward making the experiment above proposed. |