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Sir Charles William Feilden Hamilton OBE (26 July 1899 – 30 March 1978) was a New Zealand engineer who developed the modern jetboat, and founded the 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.
A jetboat is a boat propelled by a jet of water ejected from the back of the craft. Unlike a powerboat or motorboat that uses an external propeller in the water below or behind the boat, a jetboat draws the water from under the boat through an intake and into a pump-jet inside the boat, before expelling it through a nozzle at the stern .
Bill Hamilton – developed the modern jetboat [8] Frederick Hanson – inventor of chipseal, known in New Zealand as tar seal [citation needed] Peter Lynn – leading kitemaker, aeronautical theoretician and inventor of the tipping blade portable sawmill [citation needed] Colin Murdoch – inventor of the disposable syringe and the ...
New Zealand engineer Sir William Hamilton develops the first pump-jet engine (the "Hamilton Jet") capable of propelling a jetboat. [ 26 ] The first electric drip brew coffeemaker is patented in Germany and named the Wigomat after its inventor Gottlob Widmann.
Sir Hamilton can refer to: Bill Hamilton (engineer), New Zealander who developed the modern jetboat. Sir Charles Hamilton, 3rd Baronet, British army officer. Sir Edward Hamilton, 1st Baronet, Royal Navy admiral; Edward Walter Hamilton, political diarist. Frederick Hamilton (soldier), 17th-century soldier and planter.
Margaret spectated jet boat Marathons which Pat competed in, but wanted to see more of the race, suggesting a smaller, more condensed track. Events were originally held in the same natural braided rivers that had inspired Sir William Hamilton to develop the jetboat , but when the sport was introduced to Australia in the mid-1980s, permanent ...
Sir William Hamilton, (1899–1978) Fairlie-born inventor of the jetboat, whose company, Hamilton Jet, was based in Christchurch from 1948 Joel Hayward (born 1964), academic, writer and poet Graham Henry (born 1946), rugby union coach, head coach of the All Blacks [ 4 ]
The Hamilton-class cutters' hull was designed with a V cross section, and through tank testing the hull was expected to survive and stay afloat longer after suffering damage. [ 6 ] They are powered by a Combined Diesel or Gas ( CODOG ) system consisting of two diesel engines and two gas turbines , and have controllable-pitch propellers .