Willis J. Abbot

Capitolo 55

the American Philosophical Society without the success;  tries then it with the
Spaniard administers, and a benefit was offered by the King of Spain for the
exclusive right to the invention. Being a patriotic American Fitch,
refused. "My invention has to be for mine really country before and then for everybody
the world", it said him. But later, later not to have succeeded in reaping some profit from his
discovers and also finding himself/herself/itself private of the honor of first
invention, he wrote bitterly in 1792:

"The strange ideas that I had to that duration to serve my country without the,
least suspect that my only reward would be contempt and opprobrious
names! To refuse the offer of the Spanish nation was the action of a
form for hats of which I should not be guilty again."

Indeed the fortune of Fitch was hard. Its invention was a job of the purest
originality. He was to read, without education, and it didn't have so a lot never as felt of
a vaporize-motor when idea to push vapor boats came to him.
After buckets repeated refusals--every inventor's destiny--he assured for a long time
from the State in New Jersey the right to govern his/her waters for a term
of years. With this a society of escort was formed and the first boat built
and reconstructed. For first it was inclined from an only paddle to the stem;
then from a series of paddles tied to a chain without end on every side of
the boat;  later from shovels wheels, and finally from right oars to the
side. The first test did on the River of Delaware to August, 1787--winds
years before Fulton--in the presence of many separate citizens, some
of their members of the Federal Convention for which you/he/she had adjourned the
purpose, was successful. The burst of first boiler the afternoon
you/he/she was ended, but not before the inventor had shown the suit
the practicability of his/her invention.

For ten years, the time fighting against cruel poverty John Fitch,
worked to improve his/her steamboat, and to force him/it on the public favor,
but in vain. Never in the history of invention it made more fully a new equipment