Simon Stevin's Sand Yacht, 1600
Sand yachts select an fifty-fifty longer history. Simon Stevin, armed forces machine engineer to Prince Mauritz of Nassau, and, incidentally, the inventor of the decimal system, built this ane for the Prince inward 1600. The engraving shows the proud owner doing 20 miles an sixty minutes on the beach at Schreveningen. He had but beaten the Spanish invaders at the Battle of Nieuport together with the captured Admiral Don Mendoza is alongside the passengers he is seeking to impress.
Early Mechanical Carriages, Rhys Jenkins, a boyfriend fellow member of the Newcomen Society, inward issues of The Antiquary for 1896.
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