The William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine Vol. 24, No. 4, Apr., 1916 Letters of James Rumsey, Inventor of the... Letters of James Rumsey, Inventor of the Steamboat This is the ...

W. A. Bury : " The wheel which he has invented is formed, in all its parts, exactly like the paddle- wheels of a steamboat, with the exception of the paddles or buckets. In the common paddle wheel ...