CHAPTER I.—Inventors and Alleged Inventors prior to 1807.—De Garay

(1543)—Papin (1690)—Savory, Newcomen (1705)—Hulls (1736)—Abbé Arnal and the Marquis de Jouffroy (1781)—Fitch (1783)—Miller and Taylor (1788)—Symington (1801)—The CHARLOTTE DUNDAS (1803)—Bell (1803) 1