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    Who invented the first boat engine?

    Question #128530. Asked by chrismac1017. (Dec 21 12 10:47 AM)


    rayven80

    		Ole Evinrude invented the first outboard motor in 1906. He came up with the idea after a 5 mile canoe trip.



    http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/outboard.htm

    Dec 21 12, 12:14 PM
    davefarm

    		May have to define "boat engine" to answer definitively, but steam engines that powered boats came about in the early 1700's.

    http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfulton.htm

    "Papin had, early in the eighteenth century, as we have seen, actually built a steamboat; Jonathan Hulls, in 1737, secured British patents on another form;"

    Dec 21 12, 5:31 PM

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