You Brits and Americans can have all those steam gadgets.
Canada gets C&C Yachts.
;-)
Steve Hood
S/V Diamond Girl
C&C 34
Lions Head ON
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Message: 14
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:43:03 -0400
From: "Della Barba, Joe" <joe.della.ba...@ssa.gov>
To: "cnc-list@cnc-list.com" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
Subject: Re: Stus-List CnC-List Digest, Vol 81, Issue 29
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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-de
athdate-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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