#john fitch

[lindahall]

John Fitch – Scientist of the Day

John Fitch, an American clockmaker, gunsmith, and inventor, was born Jan. 21, 1742, in Windsor, Conn.

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[frenchcurious]

John Fitch & Bob Grossman (Chevrolet Corvette C1 #00867S102538) Pit stop aux 24 Heures du Mans 1960. © Klemantaski / Getty. - source Carros e Pilotos.

[rabbitcruiser]

John Fitch was granted a United States patent for the steamboat on August 26, 1791.    

[klemcoll]

Down Mexico Way

In November 1952 Mercedes-Benz sent a team of their then new 300SLs, two coupés and a spyder to contest the Carrera Panamericana Mexico which ran from November 19-23, 1952. This race started at Tuxtla Gutiérrez just northwest of the Guatemala border in the south of Mexico and would continue northward on the Panamerican HIghway over eight stages spread over five days for a total of about 3,100 km.…

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[jadafitch]

Halfway Rock Light Station, Bailey Island, Casco Bay, Maine. Sometime in the 1960s, coastguardsman, John Cluff was returning to the island with the recently repaired precious television set. It's always tricky landing a peapod in rough seas, the boat flipped, and the set sank. Three sad weeks with no tv.

[portrait-paintings]

Colonel William Fitch and His Sisters Sarah and Ann Fitch

Artist: John Singleton Copley (American, 1738-1815)

Date: 1800-1801

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

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Lieutenant-Colonel William Fitch (died 1795) was a British Army officer, who was killed fighting the Jamaican Maroons during the Second Maroon War.

Fitch was commissioned into the 65th Regiment of Foot on 28 November 1775. He was promoted, in the same regiment, to lieutenant on 2 January 1779 and to captain on 7 December 1779.[3]

Fitch was then promoted to major in the 51st Regiment of Foot on 30 November 1791, and then transferred to the 55th Regiment of Foot on 25 April 1792, before being appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the 83rd Regiment of Foot on 28 September 1793.

Fitch embarked for the West Indies in May 1795 and was deployed to Jamaica where he was killed in action later that year during the Second Maroon War.

Newly arrived in Jamaica, Fitch ignored the advice of his experienced Maroon trackers, and led his forces into an ambush by the Maroons of Cudjoe's Town, which resulted in the deaths of Fitch, many members of the white militia, and a number of Accompong warriors.

[disneybrandautism]

i love men (and women) who fly planes. truly. i love them and their weird homoerotic friendships and their callsigns and their everything. i love fanboy and rooster and hangman and coyote and phoenix from tgm who initiated this obsession. but i also love the originals like goose, iceman, maverick, and slider. and i love my new guys like rosie, buck, bucky, curt and cros. i love learning about planes. shout out to my favorite two ground crew guys: lemmons and hondo

moral of the story is that i’m autistic. and maybe unhinged.

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[acronychalwitch]

She is never where she is.

She is only inside her head.

-Janet Fitch

[bumblebeau]

john fitch #1 girlfailure

[rabbitcruiser]

John Fitch was granted a United States patent for the steamboat on August 26, 1791.    

[klemcoll]

An American Ferrari

In early 1954 Briggs Cunningham took delivery of a new Ferrari 375MM spyder with Pininfarina bodywork. Cunningham entered his new Ferrari at the Sebring12 Hours race, driven by John Fitch and Phil Walters. Fitch was already a well-known American driver as was Walters who had raced midgets for several years under the pseudonym of Ted Tappett. They failed to finish and Cunningham then decided to…

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Coming Soon - Panel Borders: Fantasy and Horror Locations

In next week's Panel Borders broadcast on ResonanceFM, "Fantasy and Horror Locations" offers a great mix of interviews with three comic creators, two UK based