The Daily Maine Fact from Around Maine: Cyrus Hamlin was born in Waterford on this date in 1811. An inventor and missionary, Hamlin built Maine's first steam engine while he was still a student at Bowdoin College. As a missionary in Turkey, he reportedly introduced the steam engine there as well, along with the rat trap, the washing machine and a treatment for cholera. He also founded a college in Constantinople. (Source: "Cyrus Hamlin: Yankee inventor with missionary zeal," by Herbert Adams, Maine Sunday Telegram, March 8, 1981. Portland: Guy Gannett Publishing Company)
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