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Inventor Paul Rapsey Hodge (1808-1870)

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https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co45195/water-colour-drawing-scale-1-12-of-first-steam-f-drawing

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Water colour drawing (scale 1:12) of first steam fire engine constructed in the U.S. of North America, 1840, by Paul Rapsey Hodge
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CC BY-NC-SA

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Courtesy of the Science Museum

Location

Paterson Museum, New Jersey, USA

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Travel & Transport

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Paul Rapsey Hodge worked for the locomotive specialist Thomas Rogers in Paterson, New Jersey, and designed the first steam-powered fire engine in the US. The site of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works is now occupied by the Paterson Museum dedicated to industrial history.

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