I'll give the Brits the *steam engine*, but we get the steamboat! On August 26, 1791, John Fitch was granted a United States patent for the steamboat. Four years earlier, on August 22, 1787, John Fitch demonstrated the first successful steamboat, launching a forty-five-foot craft on the Delaware River in the presence of delegates from the Constitutional Convention. He went on to build a larger steamboat which carried passengers and freight between Philadelphia and Burlington, New Jersey. Fitch was granted his patent after a battle with James Rumsey over claims to the invention. Both men invented similar inventions
Joe Della Barba From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Frederick G Street Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 3:32 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List CnC-List Digest, Vol 81, Issue 29 >From Wikipedia: James Watt, FRS<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society>, FRSE<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRSE> (19 January 1736 - 25 August 1819)[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt_%28inventor%29#cite_note-deathdate-0> was a Scottish<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_people> inventor<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor> and mechanical engineer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_engineer> whose improvements to the Newcomen steam engine<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomen_steam_engine> were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution> in both his native Great Britain<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain> and the rest of the world. Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On Oct 11, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Rich Knowles wrote: We'll claim it until proven otherwise:) It's our job. Rich Knowles Indigo. LF38 Halifax On 2012-10-11, at 16:07, Wally Bryant <w...@wbryant.com<mailto:w...@wbryant.com>> wrote: Rich wrote: Hey Alex! As a Brit, I know that steam was one of our best inventions and was around long before diesels came along. ...<snip> Big Grins Here. The British invented the steam engine? Umm, and *Leonardo /da Vinci /*was really an expatriate Brit, and the Mona Lisa is actually a portrait of the Queen...
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