Henry Bell (7 April 1767 – 14 November 1830) was a Scottish engineer who helped to pioneer the development of the steamship. He is mostly widely known for introducing the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe in 1812.

Henry Bell (born 1767, Torphichen, Linlithgowshire, Scot.—died Nov. 14, 1830, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire) was a Scottish engineer who launched the first commercially successful steamship in Europe.

Henry Bell may refer to: Henry Bell (architect) (1647–1711), English architect; Henry Bell (engineer) (1767–1830), Scottish engineer, introduced the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe; Henry Glassford Bell (1803–1874), Scottish lawyer poet and historian; Henry Nugent Bell (1792–1822), Irish genealogist; Henry H. Bell ...

Bell, Henry (1647–1711). Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, Bell, English gentleman-architect, appears to have been partly responsible for the replanning and rebuilding of Northampton after the fire of 1675, and to have designed All Saints' Church there (1677–80) as well as some of the façades of houses in the Market Place.

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The PS (paddle steamer) Comet was built in 1812 for Henry Bell, a Scottish engineer who with his wife had become proprietor of the Baths Hotel offering sea bathing in Helensburgh. On 15 August 1812, Bell's ship began a passenger service on the River Clyde, connecting Helensburgh to Greenock and Glasgow.

Henry Bell, after receiving a plain education at the parish school, began, in 1780, to learn the handicraft of a stone-mason. Three years after, he changed his views in favour of the other craft of the family, and was apprenticed to his uncle, who practised the art of a mill-wright.

Henry Bell is an award winning writer, poet and organiser living in Glasgow. His work – across poetry, theatre and nonfiction – explores questions of radical memory, community, and the revolutionary transformation of society.

Scottish engineer Henry Bell (1767-1830) is credited with pioneering the development of Europe’s first successful passenger steamboat service, a paddle steamer named PS Comet, which ran between Greenock and Glasgow on the River Clyde in 1812.

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