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Marking the 200th Anniversary of Henry Bell's Comet, The World's first successful passenger steam ship, this memoir laments The British Government's reluctance to acknowledge Bell's achievement, Bell's own generosity too giving American steam boat pioneer Robert Fulton the means to trial a steam ship on The Hudson River in 1807.

Of as much interest here, a list of all those who subscribed to the original publication of this memoir, their names, their addresses and too the list of those Glasgow Coffee Shops and Temperance establishments which also procured copies of the book for the interest of their customers.