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American scientist Benjamin Franklin developed a plan for a jet boat, powered by a hand pump. Water would be drawn into a pump, then expelled out a nozzle to the rear of the boat. The boat would thus be a jet boat, a concept which was taken up again some 200 years later.
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Interested if anyone knows the approximate date when Franklin developed the idea of the Jet Boat. Also what did he callit and is the drawing on this link Franklins of someone elses?
Thanks
Posted by: donald e markle | October 31, 2006 at 01:34 PM