... with proper exactness. Fitch became embarrassed with debt, and was obliged to abandon the invention, after having satisfied himself of its practicability. This ingenious man, who was probably the first inventor of the steamboat, wrote three volumes,... The West: Its Commerce and Navigation - Page 120by James Hall - 1848 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1833 - 336 pages
...embarrassed by his creditors than ever ; and, after producing three manuscript volumes, which he deposited in the Philadelphia Library, to be opened thirty years after his death, he died and was buried near the Ohio. Such was the unfortunate termination of this early conceived... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 614 pages
...embarrassed with debt, and was obliged lo abandon l he invention, after having satisfied himself ofits practicability. This ingenious man, who was probably...west, we have not learned; but it is recorded of him thai he ilied and was buried near the Ohio. His three volumes were opened about five years ago, and... | |
| John Macgregor - Commercial treaties - 1846 - 658 pages
...practicability. This ingenious man wrote three volumes, which he sealed up, in manuscript, and deposited in the Philadelphia library, to be opened thirty years after his death. It is recorded that he died and was buried near the Ohio. His three volumes were opened about twelve... | |
| History, Modern - 1848 - 622 pages
...exactness. Fitch beVOL. i. — MAY, 1848. 14 came embarrassed with debt, and was obliged to abandon his invention, after having satisfied himself of its practicability....him that he died, and was buried near the Ohio. His ihree volumes were opened about five years ago, and were found to conlain his speculations on mechanics.... | |
| Commerce - 1856 - 788 pages
...but the low state of the arts at that time, and the difficulty of getting such complex machinery make with proper exactness. Fitch became embarrassed with...of him, that he died and was buried near the Ohio. Ilia three volumes were opened, and were found to contain his speculations on mechanics. He details... | |
| Commerce - 1856 - 732 pages
...but the low state of the arts at that time, and the difficulty of getting such complex machinery make with proper exactness. Fitch became embarrassed with...learned ; but it is recorded of him, that he died ami was buried near the Ohio. Hia three volumes were opened, and were found to contain his speculation.?... | |
| 1856 - 792 pages
...embarrassed with debt, and was obliged to abandon the invention, after having satisfied himself of ita practicability. This ingenious man, who was probably...buried near the Ohio. His three volumes were opened, and were found to contain his speculations on mechanics. He details his embarrassments and disappointments... | |
| Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1856 - 812 pages
...himself of its practicability. This ingenious man, who was probably the first inventor of the itcamboat, wrote three volumes, which he deposited in manuscript,...buried near the Ohio. His three volumes were opened, and were found to contain his speculations on mechanics. He details his embarrassments and disappointments... | |
| John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1857 - 686 pages
...embarrassed by his creditors than ever ; and, nfter producing1 five manuscript volumes, which he deposited in the Philadelphia Library, to be opened thirty years after his death, he died in Kentucky, in 1798. Such was the unfortunate termination of tln's early-conceived project... | |
| John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1850 - 628 pages
...embarrassed by his creditors than ever; and, after producing five manuscript volumes, which he deposited in the Philadelphia Library, to be opened thirty years after his death, he died in Kentucky, in 1798. Such was the unfortunate termination of this early-conceived project... | |
| |