chain, paddle wheel, and screw propeller and of his puzzling
earth-and-water creature that gives luster to his name
It is not alone Fitch”s development of the devices of the endless
chain, paddle wheel, and screw propeller and of his puzzling
earth-and-water creature that gives luster to his name. His
prophetic insight into the future national importance of the
steamboat and his conception, as an inventor, of his moral
obligations to the people at large were as original and striking
in the science of that age as were his models.