Meeting at the home of the Marquis Charles-Louis Ducrest to examine the plans for the future Pyroscaphe (first steamboat) by the Claude François Dorothée, marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans. 1781 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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