Henry Bell (engineer)
Henry Bell (7 April, 1767 – 14 March, 1830) was a Scottish engineer who is famed for introducing the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe.
Read more about Henry Bell (engineer): Early Career, Interest in Steam Power For Shipping, Paddlesteamer Comet, Later Life, Death
Famous quotes containing the word bell:
“I was thinking of a son.
The womb is not a clock
nor a bell tolling,
but in the eleventh month of its life
I feel the November
of the body as well as of the calendar.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)