Comet (1813 steamboat)
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For other ships with the same name, see Comet (ship).
The steamboat Comet was the second steamboat to navigate the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.[1] Comet's owner was Daniel D. Smith and she was launched in 1813 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[2][3] With an engine and power train designed and built by Daniel French, the Comet was the first of the Western steamboats to be powered by a horizontal high-pressure engine with its piston rod connected to a stern paddle wheel.[4][5] Smith was the first to defy the steamboat monopoly in Orleans Territory granted to Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton.
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