Sir Francis Pettit Smith was an English inventor and, along with John Ericsson, one of the inventors of the screw propeller. He was also the driving force behind the construction of the world first screw-propelled steamship, SS Archimedes. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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- Wikipedia 'Francis Pettit Smith': infobox birth_date, checked 2026-09-27
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British marine engineers
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