Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Colonel Robert Erskine (1735 – 1780) was a Scottish inventor and later an American officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.Born in Scotland, Erskine was an inventor and engineer of some renown in his native land. He attended the University of Edinburgh and started a failed business in his youth. He invented the "Continual Stream Pump" and "Platometer", a centrifugal hydraulic engine, and experimented with other hydraulic systems.. }
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- Robert_Erskine comment "Colonel Robert Erskine (1735 – 1780) was a Scottish inventor and later an American officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.Born in Scotland, Erskine was an inventor and engineer of some renown in his native land. He attended the University of Edinburgh and started a failed business in his youth. He invented the "Continual Stream Pump" and "Platometer", a centrifugal hydraulic engine, and experimented with other hydraulic systems.".