The first steamboat, the Pyroscaphe, is launched on the Saône in Lyon. On 15 July 1783, a large crowd witnessed the experiment carried out by the Marquis Claude François Dorothée de Jouffroy d'Abbans. Illustration from "Les Merveilles de la science ou description populaire des inventions modernes" written by Louis Figuier and published in 1867 by Furne, Jouvet et Cie.

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