Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . 1- z ;?; 0 [>, 5 or kJ C3 -I m U O) < £ 0 o a m a 5 o 1- (5 U) H O U) m •V z 3 0 K H O) _l ?~ Ll a. MECHANICAL TEANSPORT MITMAN 523 Thus with each up-and-down stroke of the piston the pump plungerfollowed suit and alternately sucked in water through the bottom andforced it out at the stern, causing the boat to move ahead. By this time Rumsey had used up all his money and set aboutfirst to secure exclusive rights from the various State assemblies andthen to try to organize a company. Everywhere he went, however,he foun
Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . 1- z ;?; 0 [>, 5 or kJ C3 -I m U O) < £ 0 o a m a 5 o 1- (5 U) H O U) m •V z 3 0 K H O) _l ?~ Ll a. MECHANICAL TEANSPORT MITMAN 523 Thus with each up-and-down stroke of the piston the pump plungerfollowed suit and alternately sucked in water through the bottom andforced it out at the stern, causing the boat to move ahead. By this time Rumsey had used up all his money and set aboutfirst to secure exclusive rights from the various State assemblies andthen to try to organize a company. Everywhere he went, however,he found not only that Fitch had preceded him, but also that manypeople were rather skeptical about him and his work. He began torealize the injury he had brought upon himself by doing his experi-mental work secretly. In 1788, however, he succeeded in formingwith a group of Philadelphians the Rumseian Society to further hisschemes and in May of that year the society sent him to England,thus leaving the United States to Fitch. He took out two patentsin London and had a boat built which was tried out on the Thames inthe autumn of 1792. Just how successful this trial was is not k
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