Worthington
HENRY ROSSI- TER, an American inventor; born in New York City, Dec. 17, 1817; early engaged in mercantile business with his father; but in 1840 began a series of experiments with steam for the propulsion of canal boats. Soon afterward he devised a small steam pump to be used in the maintenance of the water supply in the engine boiler, and in 1841 patented an independent feed pump which developed into the direct-acting steam pump that he patented in 1849. Subsequently he built in Savannah, Ga., the first direct-acting compound engine ever WREN