Sauvage, FRÉDÉRIC

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 174

Sauvage, FRÉDÉRIC, a shipbuilder of Boulogne, whom the French regard as the inventor of the screw-propeller, in virtue of his leaving in 1832 improved the pattern in use.

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