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

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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 (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...

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James Rumsey

About 7 pages (2,068 words) in 2 products