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BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 685 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BELL, HENRY (1767-1830) , Scottish engineer, was born at Torphichen, Linlithgowshire, in 1767. Having received the
ordinary
  education of a parish school, he was apprenticed to his uncle, a millwright, and, after qualifying himself as a ship-modeller at Bo'ness, went to London, where he found employment under John
Rennie
 , the celebrated engineer. Re-turning to
Scotland
  in 1790, he first settled as a carpenter at Glasgow and afterwards removed to Helensburgh, on the Firth of
Clyde
  where he pursued his mechanical projects, and also found occasional employment as an engineer. In January 1812 he placed on the
Clyde
  a steamboat (which he named the " Comet ") of about 25 tons, propelled by an
engine
  of three horse power, at a
speed
  of 7 M. an hour. Although the honour of priority is admitted to belong to the American engineer Robert Fulton, there appears to be no doubt that Fulton had received very material assistance in the construction of his vessel from Bell and others in
Great
  Britain. A handsome sum was raised for Bell by subscription among the citizens of Glasgow; and he also received from the trustees of the river Clyde a pension of loo a year. He died at Helens
burgh
  on the 14th of November 1830. A
monument
  to his memory stands on the banks of the Clyde,.at Dunglass, near Bowling.


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