My latest feature for Jane Austen's Regency World (January/February issue) is on the progress of steam-boats during Austen's lifetime.
The Charlotte Dundas, financed by Patrick Miller of Dalswinton, and powered by a William Symington-designed engine, was trialled on Dalswinton Loch on 14 October 1788.
Images:
Left: ‘The first steamboat’, by Alexander Nasymth. Smiles, Samuel (ed.), James Nasymth Engineer; An Autobiography, John Murray, London, 1883.
Right: Henry Bell's Comet, 1812. This was Britain's first successful passenger steam-boat.
The British Merchant Service, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Fetter Lane, London, 1898. Nigel Wilkes collection.
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