biography
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| lived:
| (1767–1830)
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| biography:
| Engineer and pioneer of steam navigation, born in Linlithgow, West Lothian, EC Scotland, UK. In 1812 he successfully launched the 30-ton Comet on the Clyde. Plying regularly between Greenock and Glasgow, it was the first passenger-carrying steam-boat in European waters. |
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