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James Rumsey
James Rumsey (1743-1792) was an American mechanical engineer who exhibited a boat propelled by machinery in 1787 on the Potomac River at what is now Shepherdstown, West Virginia, before a crowd of local notables, including Horatio Gates. A pump driven by steam power ejected a stream of water from the stern of the boat and thereby propelled the boat forwards.
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