{"id":26959,"date":"2026-08-26T00:04:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T04:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=26959"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:19:11","slug":"steamboat-patent-was-received-by-john-fitch-in-1791","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=26959","title":{"rendered":"Steamboat Patent Was Received by John Fitch in 1791"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16879\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16879\" class=\" wp-image-16879\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Fitch-Steamboat-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"176\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Model of John Fitch&#8217;s Steamboat<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Steamboat patent was received by John Fitch in 1791<\/strong>. He demonstrated his invention before some of our Founding Fathers on August 22, 1787. Robert Fulton went on to make a more practical steamboat. The proliferation of trains made steamboats less useful. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/nation\/jb_nation_fitch_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steamboat Patent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steamboat patent was received by John Fitch in 1791. He demonstrated his invention before some of our Founding Fathers on August 22, 1787. Robert Fulton went on to make a more practical steamboat. The proliferation of trains made steamboats less useful. Children can learn more at: Steamboat Patent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4514,5811,1251,1194,6673],"class_list":["post-26959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4514","tag-august-26","tag-john-fitch","tag-robert-fulton","tag-steamboar-patent","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26959"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26965,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26959\/revisions\/26965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}