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'Edinburgh' Fig 6 and Fig 7. The triple-hull experimental hand-cranked auxiliary paddle vessel 'Edinburgh', built in 1787.
1 July 1848
National Maritime Museum

Double Pleasure Boat. Millar. Taylor. Symington 1788. Hand-coloured.
1 Jul 1848
National Maritime Museum

Double Ship. Patrick Millar 1787. Hand-coloured.
1 Jul 1848
National Maritime Museum

Engine and paddle wheels of Bell's Comet 1812. A diagram of the engine and paddle wheels of Henry Bell's Comet, the first ever passenger steamer in the Old World. The Comet took passengers down the Clyde. Bell wasalso instrumental in establishin
1 Jul 1848
National Maritime Museum

H.M.S Dwarf with Woodcroft's Patent Varying Pitch Screw Propeller 1844. Diagrammatic view of hull. Print depicting a diagrammatic view of the propeller and hull of the HMS Dwarf. The Dwarf was the first screw vessel in the Royal Navy when it was boug
1 Jul 1848
National Maritime Museum

Perspective view of machinery in Fulton's Cleremont 1807. Lithograph print drawn by H. B. Barlow of the machinery in Robert Fulton's paddle steamer Clermont, America's first steam boat. After the efficiency and speed of the Clermont in 1808
1 Jul 1848
National Maritime Museum

The North River or Cleremont Robt Fulton 1807. Hand-coloured lithograph depicting the Clermont. After the efficiency and speed of the Clermont in 1808 on the run between New York and Albany on a route whic passed Clermont (the country seat of Robert Livin
1 Jul 1848
National Maritime Museum