Campbell claimed that James Knibbs, engineer-in-chief of a steam fire-engine in Troy N.Y., had a patent as the original and first inventor of new and useful improvements in steam fire engine pumps, and that in 1864 Knibbs transfered the ...

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James Knibbs claims to have a patent as the original and first inventor of new and useful improvements in steam fire engine pumps. Mr. Knibbs thereafter assigned a deed of Marcus P. Norton and his subsquenty heirs.