Engineer Henry Bell

Henry Bell

Living place: Scotland

Birthday: 7-4-1767

Global rank: #92385

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Who is Engineer Henry Bell?
Originally best known for building a three-horsepower, powered steamship known as the comet, Bell eventually launched the first of Europe's commercial watercraft business. Tragically, the collision of his second steamship, the Comet II, with a similar vessel resulted in the deaths of some fifty passengers.
His steamboat business operated from Scotland's River Clyde.
 
 

Young / Before famous

Before devoting his life to building steamships, he studied stonemasonry, millwrighting, and carpentry.

Family life info

A native of Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland, Bell was the fifth boy born to Patrick and Margaret Bell. After his marriage, he settled in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Engineer Henry Bell?
Bell's American partner, Robert Fulton, built an early, commercially successful steamboat line.

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When was Engineer Henry Bell born?
Henry Bell was born in 7-4-1767, death year is , at the age of 257.
Where is Engineer Henry Bell's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Henry Bell was born in . is a Engineer, whose Zodiac is Aries, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Henry Bell's global rank is 92385 and whose rank is 56 in list of famous Engineer.
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Events in 1767 and 7-4

Birthday Henry Bell (7-4) in history

  • Day 7-4 year 1862: Gen. Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the battle of Shiloh.
  • Day 7-4 year 1913: 5,000 suffragists march to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. , seeking the vote for women.
  • Day 7-4 year 1927: U.S. secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover’s Washington speech was seen and heard in New York in the first long-distance television transmission.
  • Day 7-4 year 1948: The World Health Organization, a UN agency, was founded.
  • Day 7-4 year 1949: Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize winner, South Pacific opened on Broadway.
  • Day 7-4 year 1994: Hutu extremists in Rwanda began massacring ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In 100 days of killing, an estimated 800,000 are murdered.
  • Day 7-4 year 2003: Cécile de Brunhoff, creator of Babar the elephant, died.
  • Day 7-4 year 2009: Vermont becomes the fourth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage, just days after Iowa becomes the third.
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