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	James Rumsey Summary
		James Rumsey, a self-taught Virginia flsmith and builder, held patents for a jet-propelled steamboat, as well as improvements to the steam boiler, the grist mill, the saw mill, and the steam pump.
		James Rumsey (1743-1792) was an American mechanical engineer who exhibited a boat propelled by machinery in 1787 on the Potomac River at what is now Shepherdstown, West Virginia before a crowd of local noatbles including Horatio Gates.
		Source for name of group formed by Franklin to support Rumsey: letter from James Rumsey to his brother-in-law Charles Morrow on May 14, 1788 as he was preparing to leave for England sent by the Society.
	www.bookrags.com /James_Rumsey (825 words)

	Converted W. Va. Grievance Board Decision
		James Rumsey does not have a policy which describes which positions are lateral to professional positions, such as Grievant's, for purposes of reductions in force.
		She further argues that, because James Rumsey has listed her position as teacher for the past fourteen years, she should be considered a teacher for purposes of placing her in a lateral position under the provisions of the reduction in force statute.
		James Rumsey's failure to comply with the statutory requirement of promulgating a policy defining positions which are lateral to professionalpositions presents a difficult situation.
	www.state.wv.us /admin/grievanc/decision/dec2002/birmingham.htm (1368 words)

	R E M A R K S
		Rumsey's claims; for it would appear from a cloud of testimony, that although both of them entertained the idea of applying the force of steam to the purposes of navigation, their modes of effecting it were as different from each other as possible.
		Rumsey came to this city, and had more fully explained the principles of his boiler to many characters here, previous to his sending a plan thereof to the philosophical society, and (as it is said) to Europe, and that nearly in the same form and exactly on the principles of the boiler made by Mr.
		Rumsey's pipe-boiler, and explained the manner of its working, and advised them to adopt a similar mode of making steam, and lay aside the mode of making steam in their way, which form said silver-smith or watch-maker seemed to be an entire stranger to.
	riverweb.ncsa.uiuc.edu /Archives/remarks/remarks.html (5650 words)

	James Rumsey Duke
		Duke, James Rumsey; residence, Donaldsonville, La., was born in that city Dec. 4, 1859; son of Robert James and Rebecca (Herring) Duke, the former of whom was born at Maysville, Ky., and the latter at Donaldsonville.
		After serving the road efficiently a number of years, the attractions of the river business finally prevailed with him, and he was induced to resign from his position with the railroad and again become wharf master, the duties of which he continued to administer until his death, at the age of 68 years.
		James Rumsey Duke received his early education at private schools, following which he attended the public schools for a time.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/world/bios/duke_james.htm (568 words)

	Converted W. Va. Grievance Board Decision
		Under cover letter dated December 1, 1993, James Spears, Director of James Rumsey, returned the grievance form and advised Grievant that it was proper to file the level one complaint with his immediate supervisor.
		James Rumsey is a tri-county vocational school whose Administrative Council is composed of the school superintendents of Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan counties.
		Respondent's counsel confirmed during the telephone conference that James Rumsey is staffed with its own employees and with employees of the the participating county boards of education.
	www.state.wv.us /admin/grievanc/decision/dec1994/rocheck.htm (1285 words)

	James Rumsey
		Born in Cecil County, Maryland, at the head of the Bohemia River in 1743, James Rumsey did not receive a great deal of formal education, though he was considered to be quite adept at the natural and physical sciences.
		In 1906 a second Rumseyan Society was formed in Shepherdstown and though its efforts, a monument to Rumsey was constructed in a park overlooking the Potomac.
		Search on the terms: james rumsey and you will be able to see letters of Thomas Jefferson as well as Washington and also mentions of Rumsey in the Journal of the House of Representatives.
	www.lib.shepherdstown.wv.us /sin/rumsey.html (705 words)

	JRTI Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The James Rumsey Technical Institute is the designated Area Technical School for Berkeley, Morgan, and Jefferson County school districts, offering career and technical education opportunities for high school students and adult learners.
		Our career and technical education programs at James Rumsey are designed and validated by business and industry standards and are approved and/or accredited by the North Central Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges (NCA).
		It is the policy of James Rumsey Technical Institute not to discriminate on the basis of sex, handicap, race, color, or national origin in its educational and vocational programs, activities, or employment as required by Title IX, Section 504, and Title IV.
	www.jamesrumsey.net (178 words)

	Text of References in the Patent Office Pony
		Rumsey's claims; for it will appear from a cloud of testimony, that although both of them entertained the idea of applying the force of steam to the purposes of navigation, their modes of effecting it were as different from each other as possible.
		Rumsey came to this city, and exhibited with little or no caution, a draft of his boiler, to a number of persons, and after some time laid it before the Philosophical Society, and was not a little surprised to find that Mr.
		Rumsey's new invented mode of making steam, which mode the said silver smith or watch maker reprobated, and said it would not answer the purpose, and shewed this deponent several modes of making steam, as practiced in Europe, and said they were preferable to the pipe boiler.
	www.myoutbox.net /poar1850.htm (11190 words)

	James Rumsey Technical Institute - Registration Form (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		James Rumsey is the only public vocational/technical school in West Virginia to offer on-site housing.
		James Rumsey is fortunate to have the oldest Berkeley County Business Partnership.
		James Rumsey serves as an off-campus site for local colleges and universities such as Shepherd, Marshall, and WVU, who offer classes on the Rumsey campus, which is convenient to residents in the tri-county area.
	www.jamesrumsey.com /contactus (270 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		James Rumsey, of the State of Virginia, accompanied, with a drawing and description of an improved boiler, for a steam-engine;" also drawings and descriptions of grist-mills, saw-mills and pumps.
		He testificd that he was a partner of James Rumsey in 1783; that in the beginning of 1784 the latter built a smalll boat on the Potomac, and that in the autumn of that year he went on board and took with him his brother-in-law.
		Rumsey may have conceived the idea that steam might be applied to navigation in 1783, but he certainly made no effort to prove its adaptability to such purpose until after Fitch had publicly laid his claims before Congress, and published the nature of the principles which he relied upon to the world.
	archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu /Cyberia/RiverWeb/Projects/Ambot/Archives/westcott/chapter15.htm (5896 words)

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