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Hornblower, Josiah

(1729-1809), U.S. mechanical engineer, built first U.S. stamp mill in 1794. When he arrived in the colonies in 1753, he carried illegal steam engine parts in duplicate and triplicate. By 1755 he erected an engine at a copper mine on the Passaic River of Belleville, New Jersey, which was the first steam engine in the Western hemisphere. He was born Feb. 23, 1729, Staffordshire, England, and died Jan. 21, 1809, Newark, New Jersey.

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