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Name: James Rumsey
Birth Date: 1743
Death Date: 1792
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: inventor

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Biography of James Rumsey
445 words, approx. 2 pages
James Rumsey, a self-taught Virginia blacksmith and builder, held patents for a jet-propelled steamboat, as well as improvements to the steam boiler, the grist mill, the saw mill, and the steam pump. Although his ideas received little recognition...


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James Rumsey Information
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James Rumsey (1743-1792) was an American mechanical engineer chiefly known for exhibiting a boat propelled by machinery in 1787 on the Potomac River at Shepherdstown, now West Virginia, before a crowd of local notables, including Horatio Gates. A pump...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Bill Rumsey's Battalions
11/17/2001: 1,131 words, approx. 4 pages
Yesterday morning, I applied an extra coat of polish to my shoes and went before the mirror to make certain my beard and mustache were neatly trimmed, hair brushed, necktie properly knotted. I checked out my posture to be sure my shoulders weren't slumping...
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The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
RUMSEY.(Obit)
01/28/2004: 162 words, approx. 1 pages
Claudia M. Rumsey January 23, 2004 Claudia M. Rumsey, 54, of 6270 Coye Road, Jamesville, and daughter of Mrs. Janet Rumsey, Barnes Corners, died Friday night at the Crouse Irving Hospital, Syracuse. She had been ill with heart disease. Miss Rumsey will...
 


 

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