Josiah Hornblower, and the First Steam-Engine in America
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Excerpt from Josiah Hornblower, and the First Steam-Engine in America: With Some Notices of the Schuyler Copper Mines at Second River, N. J., And a Genealogy of the Hornblower Family "Somewhat back from the village street," in the burying-ground beside the venerable Reformed Church at Belleville, New Jersey, stands a large brownstone slab, thus inscribed: In Memory Of Josiah Hornblower, Esqr who departed this Life On the 21st of Jany AD 1809 Aged 79 Years 10 Months and 29 Days. Josiah Hornblower was born in Staffordshire, England, February 23, 1729, N. S. His father, Joseph Hornblower, was even at this early day engaged in superintending the construction of steam-engines, which were just coming into general use in the coal mines of that part of England - now known as the "Black Country" - and in the deep tin and copper mines of Cornwall, for pumping the water from the dismal depths to which the shafts had penetrated. These engines, then known as "fire-engines," were designed by Thomas Newcomen, and embodied the most practical application of the power of steam that had vet been seen, being indeed the first to cope successfully with the problem of how to clear the deep mines from water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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