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17 A number of valuable drawings illustrating the development of marine steam engineering, have been added to that series, among them being: Print of Jonathan Hull's steamboat, 1737, from draught published according to the Act of Parliament, 1737. This is the first feasible proposition for navigating boats by steam on record. Rumsey's steamboat, 1787. This is the boat in regard to the construction of which General Washington wrote to Rumsey after seeing his boat driven by the tide against the stream; and of which there is a piece of the original chain gearing in the Collection. Steamboat construction by John Fitch, 1787. This boat carried passengers, who paid fare, between Philadelphia and Burlington, on the Delaware River. Engine and propeller wheels of steamboat constructed by John Stevens, with twin screws, in 1804; on mat 30 by 40 inches, made from the original engine in the Museum [[overlapping letters]] of the Stevens Institute, Hoboken, New Jersey.