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Simon Stevin's Sand Yacht, 1600


Sand yachts bring an fifty-fifty longer history. Simon Stevin, military machine 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 hour on the beach at Schreveningen. He had simply beaten the Spanish invaders at the Battle of Nieuport together amongst the captured Admiral Don Mendoza is amidst the passengers he is seeking to impress.

Early Mechanical Carriages, Rhys Jenkins, a beau fellow member of the Newcomen Society, inward issues of The Antiquary for 1896.

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