biography
pronunciation:
[mawree]
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| lived:
| (1762–1843)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in Hebron, Connecticut, USA. He built up a successful business in timber and sawmills, and acted as a consulting engineer for the construction of locks on the Bellows Falls Canal. After 1790, he and his older brother became interested in steam navigation, and built a series of paddle-wheel steamboats, but in spite of encouragement and financial support from US lawyer and congressman Robert R Livingston (1746–1813) none of them were commercially successful. Morey took out more than 20 patents in all, such as his American Water Burner (1817–18), which was ridiculed when it appeared, but was a precursor of the water-gas process widely used half a century later. |
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