John Fitch's Steamboat. 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.
At Craven Hall on Newtown Rd. near Street Rd., Warminster, PA
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