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How Steamboats Were Born in America:
Fathered by John Fitch and Robert Fulton
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 7PM
Howard Steamboat Museum
Jeffersonville, Indiana




John Fitch's first steamboat, built in 1787 Robert Fulton's first commercially successful steamboat,
the NORTH RIVER, built in 1807


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














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