Image: Engine of Comet (1812 steamboat)
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Description: Grasshopper or "half-lever" engine of Comet, the first steam vessel in commercial service in Europe, which entered service in 1812.
Title: Engine of Comet (1812 steamboat)
Credit: Chatterton, E. Keble (1910). Steamships And Their Story. London and New York: Cassell and Company Ltd.
Author: Cassell and Company
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