This page groups engines by the fuel they burn or the combustion cycle they follow, such as diesel, petrol or steam. An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert one or more forms of energy into mechanical energy, and which fuel or cycle it uses decides which group here it falls into.
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1. Wikipedia: Marine steam engine
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Scottish engineer William Symington built the world's "first practical steamboat", the Charlotte Dundas, in 1802.
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