Show I Invented Propeller I It is just a hundred years since Frederic Sauvage inventor of the I propeller died in abject poverty t in a little hotel at Le Havre France Sauvage was a military engineer who left the army to devote himself to shipbuilding Aft Aft- After After er 10 years of painstaking re re- research research re- re research search he invented the propeller Sauvage received little honor during his lifetime His invention was at first laughed to scorn and while he was in prison for a paltry debt of a few hundred francs un un- unscrupulous unscrupulous un- un unscrupulous scrupulous rivals stole his idea and started to produce propellers Powerful shipping companies fit fit- fitted fitted ted their vessels with Sauvages Sauvage's invention but when he tried to sue them his case was thrown out of court He died poverty |