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Read, Nathan (1750–1849)

US engineer. By 1791 he shared a patent for a chain-wheel method of using paddle wheels to propel a steamboat, but he never got financing to build it. He turned to iron manufacturing and in 1795 invented a machine for heading nails. After 1800 he was active in politics.

He was born in Warren, Massachusetts. As a pharmacist, he worked on adapting James Watt's steam engine to boats and road carriages.



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