Innovators or inventors - people who have helped in the development of the Packet Boat.

Please click on name of innovator below for link.

Henry Bell

Claude-François-Dorothée De Jouffrey

Furnace and Ashton

Robert Fulton

Denis Papin

William Pool

James Watt

People involved in the development of the Steam Engine but not necessarily for navigation.

1663 - Marquis of Worcester

1683 - Sir Samuel Morland

1698 - Thomas Savery

1698 - Dr. Denis Papin

1705 - Thomas Newcomen

1718 - Henry Beighton

1720 - Leupold

1736 - Jonathan Hulls

1739 - Bernard Belider

1741 - John Payne

1751 - Francis Blake

1757 - Keane Fitzgerald

1758 - William Emerson

1762 - Dr. Joseph Black

1765 - John Smeaton

1766 - John Blakey

1769 - James Watt

1781 - Jonathan Hornblower

1782 - Marquis De Jouffrey

1788 - Patrick Miller

1790 - Bettancourt

1790 - R. Prony

1795 - John Banks

1797 - Dr. Edmund Cartwright

1797 - John Curr

1799 - Matthew Murray

1799 - W. Murdoch

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