John Fitch Research Paper

The American in 1980 was not interested in the manufacturers and industry and wanted to stay rural and rely on Europe to be its workshop. However, they were in the eagerness to invent new America, whether in political and workshop revolutionaries, in which John Fitch was the first America to influence the workshop revolutionaries. John Fitch was an unsettling person who was in the searching for something great as to change America trade route for an affordable and safe. Fitch attends many fields of works such as farm work, clock making, silversmith, map making, and etc. However, his adventure through America land, he encounters and experience many people’s hardships, whether through horse and muscle power or waterways route. After he survived …show more content…
Fulton was striving for the top and he us his charm that work both on men and women to helps him get sponsorship for his invention. Robert Fulton was an intelligent person who know to promote himself to interested other, which he meets with rich people like Joel and Ruth Barlow and Paris who supplied him with his invention. In 1802, he was introduced to Robert Livingston, who was on a mission to negotiate with Napoleon for America to sail the lower Mississippi territory, which was owned by France. Fulton was not rich, but he has skills to communicate with other people and achieve his goal much better than John Fitch. Fulton are more successful because he does not concern whether the origin idea come from and he value more about the new idea that branch from the original. Fulton was testing many ideas and end with the old idea of using water wheels instead of the paddles. During the time, Louisiana purchase United Stated on the west for settlement and trade, which the Mississippi river provide a trade route for the steamboat and Fulton sailed a trial run about 150-mile and it’s appearance to be 146 ft. long and 12ft wide that many people were laughing at it. The first trip, he invited his friend and ladies to ride free on the Claremont, this was a great promotion that allows people to see what the steamboat can do and work by experience it’s unique power. Then he later married Livingston’s cousin and heading to become rich as well as his invention also catch up and change his life. Fulton was a lucky man that was born in the period where there is fund availed to helps and with his additional connection with others rich family, supported his invention further than Fitch who was struggling alone to build a steamboat. In Fulton period, there are more advance idea and available resources to help him innovating his invention, such as an engineer and architectural