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Calendar of Industrial Pioneers

Nature volume 110, page 436 (1922)Cite this article

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September 24, 1852. John Barnes died.—From 1822 to 1835 Barnes was a partner with Joseph Miller, the marine engineer, and as such assisted in introducing steam navigation on the Rhone and Saone. He afterwards designed engines for vessels built by Normand of Havre, among these being the Napoléon, the first screw ship in the French Navy. At the time of his death he was manager of works at La Ciotat near Marseilles.

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S., E. Calendar of Industrial Pioneers. Nature 110, 436 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110436a0

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