biography
| name: |
Roosevelt, Nicholas
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pronunciation:
[rohzuhvelt]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1767–1854)
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| biography:
| Engineer, born in New York, USA. He was a pioneer in steam navigation, first building a model boat in 1782 propelled by side-paddle wheels turned by springs. He later established a foundry and built a steamboat there (1798). In 1811 he and Robert Fulton built the New Orleans, the first steamboat on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. |
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