The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Dod, Daniel
DOD, Daniel, American mechanic: b.
Virginia, 28 Sept. 1788; d. New York, 9 May 1823.
He was educated at Rutgers College. He
devoted himself to the study of steam machinery
and the construction of steam-engines; the
Savannah (1819), the first steamship to cross the
Atlantic, had an engine of his construction. He
was killed by the explosion of a boiler on a
steamboat, the machinery of which he had
altered.