Patrick Miller's steamboat experiment, carried out with the help of engineer William Symington and James Taylor, at Dalswinton in December 1789 (Scotland). 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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