biography
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| lived:
| (1743–98)
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| biography:
| Inventor and pioneer of steampower, born in Windsor, Connecticut, USA. In 1787 he successfully demonstrated a prototype steam boat on the Delaware R, before building and operating a larger paddle-wheeled ferry between Phildelphia and Burlington, NJ. Despite the reliability of his vessels, and holding US and French patents for steamboats (1791), he was not successful commercially. |
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