ANALYTIC
Title:
The Fitch model steam engine
Parent:
Museum Echoes. v.28, no.1
Publication:
Columbus, 1955.
Call #:
977.1 OH3M V.28, NO.1
Extent:
p.3-6 ; octavo.
Subjects:
Subject
PAMPHLET
Title:
Un précurseur des bateaux à vapeur, John Fitch (1743-1798)
Creators:
Augustin-Normand, Paul. | Académie de Marine
Publication:
Societé d'Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, Paris, 1933.
Notes:
At head of the title: Académie de marine. Includes bibliographical references.
Call #:
920 Pam. v.48, no.12
Extent:
34 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., port. ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
PAMPHLET
Title:
Un précurseur des bateaux à vapeur, John Fitch (1743-1798)
Creators:
Augustin-Normand, Paul. | Académie de Marine
Publication:
Société d'Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, Paris, 1933.
Notes:
At head of the title: Académie de Marine.
Call #:
920 Pam. v.46, no.16
Extent:
34 p. , [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
ANALYTIC
Title:
An early steamboat plan of John Fitch
Parent:
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. v.79, no.1
Creator:
Prager, Frank D.
Publication:
Philadelphia, 1955.
Call #:
974.8 P41 V.79, NO.1
Extent:
p. [63]-80. ; octavo.
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1783-1854
Abstract:
3 reels. Correspondence, diaries, financial records, surveyor's notes, steamboat sketches, and manuscripts of writings on the steamboat, the Universal Society, and chemicals. Fitch was an inventor who provided the first passenger service on the Delaware River via a steamboat. Also includes small selection of the papers of the architect, William Thornton (1759-1828). Originals are in the Library of Congress.
Call #:
Mss.DLAR.Film.395
Extent:
3 Reels
BOOK
Title:
Whereas John Fitch, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, has proposed a machine for promoting navigation ... we the subscribers being willing to promote ... do promise to pay said Fitch ... provided said Fitch shall have ready to be delivered to us ... so many
Publication:
Richmond, Va, 1786?]
Notes:
A "subscription paper" printed and distributed by John Fitch to members of the Virginia Assembly in an attempt to raise funds for the construction of his first steamboat. See: Westcott, T. Life of John Fitch ... 1857, p.143.
Call #:
973 C683 NO.162
Extent:
Broadside ; 13" x 8 1/8"
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Life of John Fitch: the inventor of the steam-boat
Creator:
Westcott, Thompson.
Publication:
Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1857.
Notes:
Added t.-p., engraved. Readex Microprint edition.
Call #:
LMK
Extent:
[2], xxiv, 25-415 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.
PAMPHLET
Title:
Memorial of Ferdinando Fairfax against the extention of the patents granted to Robert Fulton, for improvements in propelling vessels by steam
Creators:
Fairfax, Ferdinando, 1766-1820 | United States Congress. Senate.
Publication:
Printed by Edward De Krafft, Washington City, 1816.
Notes:
Addressed to the Senate and dated Washington, March 5th, 1816. Urges the claim of John Fitch to be the inventor of steamboats.
Call #:
920 Pam. v.17, no.15
Extent:
8 p. ; 22 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Steamboat John
Creator:
Weston, Steve.
Publication:
1950.
Notes:
From Swing Magazine, v.6, no.1, Jan.-Feb. 1950. Mentions refusal of Benjamin Franklin to endorse invention and the depositing of Fitch's plans in the American Philosophical Society.
Call #:
920 PAM. NO.58
Extent:
p. 11-14 ; duodecimo.
Subjects:
ANALYTIC
Title:
A tale of two deists: John Fitch, Elihu Palmer, and the boundary of tolerable religious expression in early national Philadelphia
Parent:
Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, v.132, no.1
Creator:
Schlereth, Eric.
Publication:
Philadelphia, Pa, 2008.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Call #:
974.8 P41 V.132, NO.1
Extent:
p. [5]-31. ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
PAMPHLET
Title:
Connecticut's contribution to the development of the steamboat
Creator:
Hoopes, Penrose R. (Penrose Robinson), 1892-
Publication:
Published for the Tercentenary Commission by the Yale University Press, New Haven], 1936.
Notes:
Cover-title. Connecticut. Tercentenary commission. Publication. no.53. "Bibliographical note": p. 31.
Call #:
973 PAM. NO.43
Extent:
31 p. ; octavo.
Subjects:
PAMPHLET
Title:
A history of the steam-boat case, lately discussed by counsel before the Legislature of New Jersey: comprised in a letter to a gentleman at Washington
Creator:
Stockton, Lucius Horatio, d. 1835
Publication:
Printed for the Author, Trenton, 1815.
Notes:
Published anonymously. By L.H. Stockton. Cf. DAB (under Ogden, Aaron) Biographical sketches of the speakers, Aaron Ogden, et al.: 4 p. at end. Not in Shaw-Shoemaker.
Call #:
340 Pam. v.7, no.5
Extent:
48, 4 p. ; 22 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Steam: The untold story of America's first great invention
Creator:
Sutcliffe, Andrea.
Publication:
Palgrave Macmillan, New York], [c2004]
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Call #:
623.81 SU8S
Extent:
xiv, 272 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 22 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Steamboats come true: American inventors in action
Creator:
Flexner, James Thomas, 1908-
Publication:
The Viking press, New York, 1944.
Notes:
"Bibliography of principal sources": p. 379-381. Bibliographical references included in "Notes to the text": (p. 382-401)
Call #:
621.1 F63S
Extent:
x, 406 p. : illus., diagrs., ports. ; 21 1/2 cm.
Subjects:
BOOK
Title:
Lives of Ezra Stiles, John Fitch, and Anne Hutchinson
Creators:
Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 | Kingsley, James Luce, 1778-1852 | Whittlesey, Charles, 1808-1886 | Ellis, George Edward, 1814-1894 | Hinman, David C. | Hornland, Charles H. | Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry | Charles C. Little and James Brown (Firm) | Kansas City Public Library (Kansas City, Mo.) | David Center for the American Revolution
Publication:
Charles C. Little and James Brown, Boston, 1845
Notes:
There are 3 series title pages. One is engraved. A second gives the series numbering as second series, volume 6. A third gives the series numbering as volume 16. Includes bibliographical references.
Call #:
DLAR 6730
Extent:
xiii, 376 pages : portrait ; 18 cm
Subjects:
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