Crossword-Solution: SYMINGTON 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

When it was first proposed, Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society, said: "It is a pretty plan, but there is just one point overlooked: that the steam-engine requires a firm basis on which to work." Symington, the practical mechanic, put this theory to the test by his successful experiments, first on Dalswinton Lake, and then on the Forth and Clyde Canal.

The men soon became exhausted, and on Miller mentioning the subject to William Symington, who was then exhibiting his road locomotive in Edinburgh, Symington at once said, "Why don't you employ steam-power?" There were many speculations in early times as to the application of steam-power for propelling vessels through the water.

Meanwhile Fulton had studied the Watt engine on Symington's steamboat, the Charlotte Dundas, on the Forth and Clyde Canal, and Livingston had been granted a renewal of his monopoly of the waters of New York.

Sam Boal, the first man on this job, was down there for a day or two.” “What did he find out?” “Symington told him the saucers were bunk.

Everybody from Symington down will tell you the saucers are bunk.” “That’s not what Project ‘Saucer’ says in that April report.” “That report was made up a long time ago,” said Splitt.