Reply To: The first steamboats in Europe?

[Tony Beales]

The ‘Mr Dawson’ concerned is James Dawson of George’s Place, Dublin. The claim was in his paper ‘On the Improvement of Steam-Packets’ published in The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture [vol 43 second series], London 1823, p 23. Use this weblink for the text online: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rwQLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q=&f=false
It was perhaps the same James Dawson that patented a propellor in 1816.