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Image: Appletons' Fitch John Boat

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Description: Drawing of a steamboat designed and build by John Fitch in April 1790. It was used for a whole summer as a regular passenger boat between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Burlington, New Jersey, with a speed of eight miles an hour.
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