The Marquis Claude François Dorothée de Jouffroy d'Abbans supervising the manufacture of the cylinder for his steam engine (the future Pyroscaphe, the first steamboat), by a boilermaker at Baume-les-Dames (Franche-Comté). 1783 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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