Shipbuilding Innovations
- Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767–1830)
- The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874)
- The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803–1882)
- Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832–1913)
- John Elder & Charles Randolph (Marine Compound expansion engine)
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