death_date death_place birth_place significant_advance nationality birth_date image article_title significant_projects name
december 18 , 1834 st. augustine , florida whitestown , new york hydraulic cement united states september 8 , 1790 canvass white.jpg canvass white
 delaware and raritan canal canvass white
canvass white

canvass white -lrb- september 8 , 1790 -- december 18 , 1834 -rrb- was an american engineer and inventor .
he was chief engineer at the delaware and raritan canal and he patented a type of hydraulic cement .
