Show invented propeller it is just a hundred years since frederic sauvage inventor of the propeller died in abject poverty in a little hotel at le havre france sauvage was a milita military 13 engineer who left the army to devote himself to shipbuilding after 10 years of painstaking research he invented the propeller sauvage received little honor during his lifetime his invention on was at first laughed laughe d to scorn a and lad while he was in pris prison on for a paltry debt of afew a few hundred francs unscrupulous rivals stole his idea and started to produce propellers powerful shipping companies fitted their vessels with Sa sausages Sauvage i anven invention tion but when he tried to sue them his case was thrown out of court he died poverty stricken |