Publication de “A Short treatise on the application of steam, wereby is fuly shewn, from actual experiments, that steam may be applied to propel boats” (traité sur les applications de la vapeur, dans lequel il est entièrement montré, d’après des expérimentations récentes, que la vapeur peut être utilisée pour la propulsion des bateaux……) Lorsqu’il quitta les Etats Unis pour l’Angleterre, il y déposa entre autres le brevet anglais N°1673 de 1788, décrivant des chaudières à tubes d'eau, solution technique qui sera utilisée plus tard dans les chaudières de chauffage central.

Publication of "A short treatise on the application of steam, where is fuly shown, from actual experiments, which steam may be applied to propel boats" (a treatise on the applications of steam, in which it is fully shown, according to recent experiments, that the steam can be used for the propulsion of the boats ......) When leaving the United States for England, he deposited there among others the British patent n ° 1673 of 1788, describing boilers with tubes of water, technical solution that will be used later in central heating boilers.