John Fitch's Steamboat - Warminster, PA
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member ODragon
N 40° 12.410 W 075° 05.968
18T E 491534 N 4450718
Fitch tested near here a...
Waymark Code: WM698M
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 04/26/2009
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member unimoggers
Views: 14

Marker Text: Fitch tested near here a model steamboat in 1785. Before his death in 1798, he built 4 mechanically successful steamboats. The first in the U.S., they proved financial failures, leaving final success of the idea to Robert Fulton.
Marker Name: John Fitch's Steamboat

County: Bucks

Date Dedicated: 10/23/1947

Marker Type: Roadside

Location: Jct. Pa. 132 & 263, Warminster

Category: Business & Industry, Invention, Professions & Vocations, Transportation

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