How Steamboats Were Born in America:
Fathered by John Fitch and Robert Fulton
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 7PM
Howard Steamboat Museum
Jeffersonville, Indiana
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John Fitch's first steamboat, built in 1787
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Robert Fulton's first commercially successful steamboat,
the NORTH RIVER, built in 1807
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Harding Lindhult, Vice-president of the newly developed
John Fitch Museum in Warminster, PA will visit the Howard
Steamboat Museum
and give a video and PowerPoint presentation on the
intriguing story of who invented the steamboat. The
steamboat has been heralded as the first major American
invention and there has always been controversy as to who
should receive the credit.
The presentation is free and open to the public and will
begin at 7PM.
For information contact: Yvonne Knight, Administrator,
at 812-283-3728 or HSMSTEAM@aol.com
Harding Lindhult speaking in the library