[DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #6655, aired 2013-07-19 [PAR] Pew research reports these people have gone from 4 hours of household ... 20 
years before Robert Fulton & his Clermont, John Fitch built an ... Singer Cheryl 
Cole's regional British one got her booted from "The X Factor"... [DOC] [TLE] The First American Steamboat: James Rumsey Its Inventor, Not John ... [PAR] of the late John Fitch, to set forth, with as much brevity ... Fulton built and 
operated the first steam- ... boat nearly twenty years before Fulton's Clermont. ... 
Clermont was the first commercially successful steamboat, ac- ... The inventor is 
here considered to be the one .... Mechanical," and in "The Documentary History 
of the. [DOC] [TLE] An Early Steamboat Plan of John Fitch - jstor [PAR] Two unpublished papers of John Fitch are printed and dis cussed on the ... 
writing, illustrated by a fairly simple steam engine diagram.1 For many decades 
this... [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 7 - Illinois State Museum [PAR] These could safely be dismissed on a priori grounds, even if research had not 
shown ... Almost if not quite as early in the field as Rumsey was John Fitch of ... A 
boat 34 feet long, 8 feet beam, and 3 feet 6 inches in depth was built at ... On the 
22nd August 1787 twenty years almost to a day before Fulton's final success this
... [DOC] [TLE] James Rumsey - Wikipedia [PAR] James Rumsey (17431792) was an American mechanical engineer chiefly 
known for exhibiting a boat propelled by machinery in 1787 on the Potomac 
River at Shepherdstown in present-day West Virginia before ... He likely had 
moved to the area with his family some years before the American Revolution, .... 
Jump up ^ [1]... [DOC] [TLE] Steamboat - Wikipedia [PAR] A steamboat is a boat in which the primary method of marine propulsion is steam 
power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. Steamboats sometimes use 
the prefix designation SS, S.S. or S/S (for 'Screw Steamer') or PS (for 'Paddle 
Steamer'), however these ... Similar boats were made in 1785 by John Fitch in 
Philadelphia and William... [DOC] [TLE] The Story of Mankind - The Age of the Engine (Hendrik van Loon) [PAR] Indeed one of the most interesting chapters of history is the effort of man to let 
some one else or ... Two years before the beginning of the Thirty Years War, John 
Napier, .... He had undoubtedly copied it from John Fitch, a mechanical genius of 
... built his famous travelling engine which reduced the price of coal by almost... [DOC] [TLE] transportation milestones - Econedlink [PAR] these are the ones provided on the sample timeline. ... John Fitch is given credit 
for the first recorded steam-powered ship in the U.S. ... While they were 
mechanically successful, ... The first practical steamboat towed two 70-ton barges 
almost 20 miles along the ... Livingston contracted with Fulton to build the 
steamboat in. [DOC] [TLE] Chapter5 [PAR] Darwin's poetical prophecy was published long years before Watt's engine .... 
Each of these arms, at the distance of 20 inches from the centre, carries a sheet 
iron .... John Fitch, whose experiments will presently be referred to, was an ... 
When nearly completed, in September, 1774 the boat sprung a leak, and, one 
night,... [DOC] [TLE] Clermont - Henry Livingston, Jr. [PAR] John Fitch had been given a monopoly of this kind by the United States ... At 
present, I place these notes in your hands, so that if a like project should reach 
you before ... to Fulton, a monopoly granted the former in 1798 for the term of 
twenty years ... This engine 1 was to have a steam-cylinder two feet in diameter 
and of four... [DOC] [TLE] John Fitch, Inventor of Steamboats - OHJ Archive [PAR] Twenty-one years before the whistle of Fulton's steamboat,. the "Clermont", 
startled the ... the Hudson, John Fitch had made a more successful experiment. [DOC] [TLE] Robert Fulton facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles

Question: John Fitch built a mechanically successful one of these almost 20 years before Fulton
Answer: a steamboat