Bill Hamilton
Engineer, Deceased Person
1899 – 1978
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Who was Bill Hamilton?
Sir Charles William "Bill" Feilden Hamilton OBE was a New Zealander who developed the modern jetboat, and founder of what is now the world's leading water jet manufacturing company - CWF Hamilton Ltd.
Hamilton never claimed to have invented the jet boat. He once said "I do not claim to have invented marine jet propulsion. The honour belongs to a gentleman named Archimedes, who lived some years ago." What he did was refine the design enough to produce the first useful modern jet boat.
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