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In 1781, being promised the help of the Government, he began the construction of his pyroscaphe at Lyons.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Ten years later, having constructed a _pyroscaphe_ [steamboat] which voyaged along the Saone, from Lyons to Isle Barbe, Jouffroy presented a petition to Cabinet Minister Calonne and to the
The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 Various 1888
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Robert Fulton himself had testified that "if the glory (of imagining the first pyroscaphe) belongs to any one man, it belongs to the author of the experiments made on the River Saône at Lyons in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
rolig commented on the word pyroscaphe
An early word for a steamship.
December 1, 2011