Innovators or inventors - people who have helped in the development of the Packet Boat. Please click on name of innovator below for link. Claude-François-Dorothée De Jouffrey People involved in the development of the Steam Engine but not necessarily for navigation. 1663 - Marquis of Worcester 1683 - Sir Samuel Morland 1698 - Thomas Savery 1698 - Dr. Denis Papin 1705 - Thomas Newcomen 1718 - Henry Beighton 1720 - Leupold 1736 - Jonathan Hulls 1739 - Bernard Belider 1741 - John Payne 1751 - Francis Blake 1757 - Keane Fitzgerald 1758 - William Emerson 1762 - Dr. Joseph Black 1765 - John Smeaton 1766 - John Blakey 1769 - James Watt 1781 - Jonathan Hornblower 1782 - Marquis De Jouffrey 1788 - Patrick Miller 1790 - Bettancourt 1790 - R. Prony 1795 - John Banks 1797 - Dr. Edmund Cartwright 1797 - John Curr 1799 - Matthew Murray 1799 - W. Murdoch
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Shipbuilders ------------- Please click on the link below Knottingley, Brotherton and Castleford. Mexborough, and surrounding area. |