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The autobiography of John Fitch / edited with introd. and notes by Frank D. Prager.
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- Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 1976.
- 1976
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VM140.F5 xA3 Off-site The autobiography of John Fitch / edited with introd. and notes by Frank D. Prager.
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- Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 1976.
- 1976
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VM140.F5xA3 Off-site The autobiography of John Fitch / edited with introd. and notes by Frank D. Prager.
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- Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 1976.
- 1976
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Poor John Fitch, inventor of the steamboat, by Thomas Boyd.
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- New York, G.P. Putnam's sons [c1935]
- 1935
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NYGB CT 275 F577 B69 Offsite Poor John Fitch, inventor of the steamboat / by Thomas Boyd.
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- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1935], [©1935]
- 1935-1935
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 973.209 F553 Off-site John Fitch : a reprint from the history of the Fitch family / by Roscoe Conkling Fitch.
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- [Haverhill, Mass.] : [Record Pub. Co.], [1930]
- 1930
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 620.99 F55 Off-site Life of John Fitch : the inventor of the steam-boat / by Thompson Westcott.
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- Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1857.
- 1857
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 620.99 F554 Off-site Life of John Fitch : the inventor of the steam-boat / by Thompson Westcott.
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- Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1857.
- 1857
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Life of John Fitch [microform] : the inventor of the steam-boat / by Thomas Westcott.
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- Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1878.
- 1970-1878
Winchester Fitch genealogical research papers, 1897 (bulk 1963).
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- 1897-1963
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John Fitch, patriot, martyr, pioneer steamboat inventor.
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- [n.p., 1932].
- 1932-1932
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Eng 80.6.10 Off-site Remarks on Mr. John Fitch's reply to Mr. James Rumsey's pamphlet [electronic resource] / by Joseph Barnes ...
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- Philadelphia : Printed by J. James, 1788.
- 1788
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY101236797&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplAn explanation for keeping a ship's traverse at sea, by the columbian ready reckoner. By John Fitch [electronic resource].
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- London : printed for, and published by, the author, 1793.
- 1793
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- [n.p., 1935].
- 1935
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Eng 80.6.15 Off-site John Fitch, the first in the world's history to invent and apply steam propulsion of vessels through water. Comp. for the Admiral Bunce Section, Hartford, Conn., no. 42, of the National Navy League of the United States.
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- [Hartford, Press of R. S. Peck & Co.] 1912.
- 1912
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VM140.F5N3 1912 Off-site John Fitch, the first in the world's history to invent and apply steam propulsion of vessels through water. Comp. for the Admiral Bunce Section, Hartford, Conn., no. 42, of the National Navy League of the United States.
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- [Hartford, Press of R. S. Peck & Co.] 1912.
- 1912
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John Fitch, the first in the world's history to invent and apply steam propulsion of vessels through water / Comp. for the Admiral Bunce Section, Hartford, Conn., no. 42, of the National Navy League of the United States.
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- [Hartford] : [Press of R.S. Peck & Co.], 1912.
- 1912
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 973.209 F5533 Off-site John Fitch : the first in the world's history to invent and apply steam propulsion of vessels through water. Born January 21, 1743 in Windsor (now South Windsor) Connecticut. Died July 2, 1798 and was buried in Bardstown, Kentucky / compiled by Francis B. Allen, chairman.
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- National Navy League of the United States, 1912.
- 1912
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The original steam-boat supported; or, A reply to Mr. James Rumsey's pamphlet. Shewing the true priority of John Fitch, and the false datings, &c. of James Rumsey.
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- 1788
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The original steam-boat supported, or, A reply to Mr. James Rumsey's pamphlet [electronic resource] : shewing the true priority of John Fitch, and the false datings, &c. of James Rumsey.
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- Philadelphia: : Printed by Zachariah Poulson. Junr. ..., 1788.
- 1788
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- Philadelphia : Printed by Z. Poulson, 1788.
- 1788
The original steam-boat supported; or, A reply to Mr. James Rumsey's pamphlet. Shewing the true priority of John Fitch, and the false datings, &c. of James Rumsey.
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- Philadelphia, Printed by Z. Poulson, junr., 1788.
- 1788
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Justice to the memory of John Fitch : who in 1785 invented a steam engine and steam boat, planned, constructed and put in operation the steam boat "Perseverance," of sixty tons, moving at the rate of eight miles an hour, in 1788 / by Charles Whittlesey.
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- Cincinnati : Printed at the Daily Atlas Office, 1845.
- 1845
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"Honor to whom honor is due." Origin of steam navigation. A view of Collect pond and its vicinity in the city of New York in 1793. On which pond, the first boat, propelled by steam with paddle wheels or screw propellers was constructed by John Fitch, six years before Robert Fulton made trial of his boat upon the river Seine, in France, and ten years prior to his putting into opperation [sic] his boat Clermont in New York; with a representation of the boat and its machinery, on the Collect pond, by John Hutchings.
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- Williamsburg, L.I., 1846.
- 1846
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A brief account of last century's inventive steam pirate.
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- [Berkeley Springs? W. Va.] 1910.
- 1910
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Fugitive essays, upon interesting and useful subjects, relating to the early history of Ohio : its geology and agriculture, with a biography of the first successful constructor of steamboats ; a dissertation upon the antiquity of the material universe, and other articles, being a reprint from various periodicals of the day / by Charles Whittlesey.
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- Hudson, O. : Sawyer, Ingersoll and Co., 1852.
- 1852
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Fugitive essays, upon interesting and useful subjects, relating to the early history of Ohio : its geology and agriculture, with a biography of the first successful constructor of steamboats ; a dissertation upon the antiquity of the material universe, and other articles, being a reprint from various periodicals of the day / by Charles Whittlesey.
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- Hudson, O. : Sawyer, Ingersoll and Co., 1852.
- 1852
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 1206.982 Off-site Fugitive essays, upon interesting and useful subjects, relating to the early history of Ohio : its geology and agriculture, with a biography of the first successful constructor of steamboats ; a dissertation upon the antiquity of the material universe, and other articles, being a reprint from various periodicals of the day / by Charles Whittlesey.
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- Hudson, O. : Sawyer, Ingersoll and Co., 1852.
- 1852
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 978.3 W61 Off-site Fugitive essays, upon interesting and useful subjects, relating to the early history of Ohio : its geology and agriculture, with a biography of the first successful constructor of steamboats ; a dissertation upon the antiquity of the material universe, and other articles, being a reprint from various periodicals of the day / by Charles Whittlesey.
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- Hudson, O. : Sawyer, Ingersoll and Co., 1852.
- 1852
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 1206.982 Off-site Connecticut's contribution to the development of the steamboat [by] Penrose Robinson Hoopes.
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- [New Haven] Published for the Tercentenary Commission by the Yale University Press, 1936.
- 1936
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A short treatise on the application of steam, whereby is clearly shewn, from actual experiments, that steam may be applied to propel boats or vessels of any burthen against rapid currents with great velocity. Great velocity. The same principles are also introduced with effect, by a machine of simple of chep construction, for the purpose of raising water sufficient for the working of grist-mills, saw-mills, &c. and for watering meadows and other purposes of agriculture. By James Rumsey, of Berkeley County, Virginia.
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- Philadelphia, Printed by Joseph James, 1788.
- 1788
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Three essays: a dissertation on the genesis of mechanical transport in America before 1800.
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- St. Augustine, 1960.
- 1960
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A view of Collect Pond and its vicinity in the City of New York in 1793 : on which pond the first boat propelled by steam with paddle wheels or screw propellers was constructed by John Fitch, six years before Robert Fulton ... / by John Hutchings.
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- Williamsburgh, L. Island, [N.Y.] : John Hutchings, No. 3 Wesley Place, 1846.
- 1846
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A view of Collect Pond and its vicinity in the City of New York in 1793 : on which pond the first boat propelled by paddle wheels and screw-propellers constructed by John Fitch, six years before Robert Fulton ... / by John Hutchings ; drawn & lith. by J. Penniman, 80 1/2 Canal St., N.Y.
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- Williamsburgh, L. Island, [N.Y.] : John Hutchings, No. 3, Wesley Place, 1846.
- 1846
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An account of the steamboat controversy between the citizens of New York and New Jersey, from 1811 to 1824, originating in the asserted claim of New York to the exclusive jurisdiction over all the waters between the two states. / By John D. Ward. ...
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- Newark, N.J. : Printed at the Daily Advertiser Office, 1863.
- 1863
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Econ 7294.1.2 Off-site The petition of John R. Livingston & Robert J. Livingston, to the legislature of New-Jersey, respecting steam-boats; with the laws of the states of New-York and New-Jersey, and affidavits of sundry persons respecting the improvements said to be made by Daniel Dod and others, on the machinery of R. Fulton.
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- New-York: Printed by Pelsue & Gould ... 1814.
- 1814
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VDCP (Livingston, J. R. Petition) Offsite The rare map of the Northwest, 1785, by John Fitch. A bibliographical account, with facsimile reproduction including some account of Thomas Hutchins and William McMurray, by P. Lee Phillips.
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- Washington, W.H. Lowdermilk & company, 1916.
- 1916
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The mechanic / Mrs. L.C. Tuthill.
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- New York : George P. Putnam ; London : Putnam's American Agency, 1850.
- 1850
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VBA (Tuthill, L.C. Mechanic) Offsite Success in life., The mechanic.
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- New York, G.P. Putnam,etc.,etc., 1850.
- 1850
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text KD 982 Off-site Steam : the untold story of America's first great invention / Andrea Sutcliffe.
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- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- 2004
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSD 04-223 Offsite A review of the letter addressed by William Alexander Duer, esquire, to Cadwallader D. Colden, esquire, in answer to strictures contained in his "Life of Robert Fulton," relative to steam navigation. With an appendix, containing the acts of the Legislature.
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- New York, 1818.
- 1818
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Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters of the western waters [electronic resource] : containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power, the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton history of the early steamboat navigation on western waters full accounts of all the steamboat disasters : a complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers list of plantations on the Mississippi river / by James T. Lloyd.
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- Cincinnati : J.T. Lloyd, 1856.
- 1856
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- Cincinnati, O. : J.T. Lloyd & Co., 1856.
- 1856
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXHD (Lloyd, J. T. Lloyd's steamboat directory) Offsite Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters of the western waters [electronic resource] : containing the history of the first application of steam, as a motive power, the lives of John Fitch and Robert Fulton ... history of the early steamboat navigation on western waters ... full accounts of all the steamboat disasters ... a complete list of steamboats and all other vessels now afloat on the western rivers and lakes ... maps of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ... list of plantations on the Mississippi river ... / by James T. Lloyd.
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- Cincinnati : J.T. Lloyd, 1856.
- 1856
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http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/Sabin?af=RN&ae=CY102176040&srchtp=a&ste=14&q=nyplA plan wherein the power of steam is fully shewn, by a now constructed machine, for propelling boats of vessels, of any burthen, against the most rapid streams or rivers, with great velocity [electronic resource] : also, a machine, constructed on similar philosophical principles, by which water may be raised for grist or saw-mills, watering meadows, &c. &c. / by James Rumsey ...
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- [Philadelphia, 1788]
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- Cincinnati, O., J. T. Lloyd & Co., 1856.
- 1856
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material F d 8257 Diaries, undated, and four autographed manuscripts Off-site Advanced sheets of origin and progress of steam navigation in America ; containing an historical sketch of the ship building operations of Isaac and William H. Webb,... together with a description of Webb's academy and home for shipbuilders. Compiled by Henry Whittemore...
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- New York : Original and Progressive Publishing ; 1890.
- 1890
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