Author: Dyster, Joseph Joshua
Biography:
DYSTER, Joseph Joshua (b c 1768: ancestry.com)
He was born in Middlesex and married at Chertsey in Surrey in 1802. In 1809 he and his wife, Mary Pasmore, emigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia. He was perhaps an engineer, certainly an inventor: in 1810 he took out a patent for making "tubular iron bridges"; during the War of 1812 when he had to be registered as an enemy alien, he gave his occupation as "Bridge Architecture"; and in 1819-20 in New York, he proposed a new "method of propelling boats." (ancestry.com 3 Oct. 2018) HJ
Books written (2):
Philadelphia: printed for the author by S. Roberts, 1816
Philadelphia: [no publisher: printed "for the author" by Hall and Atkinson], 1817