Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Pyroscaphe became the first working steamboat to navigate a river in 1783. Denis Papin conceived the idea of steam propulsion in the first half of the eighteenth century.
The Aaron Manby arrived in Paris on the 22nd of June 1822 at an average speed of five miles per hour. It carried passengers and freight as the first iron steamship to go to sea.
Francis Pettit Smith designed the Archimedes in 1836 with a screw propeller that remained submerged regardless of ship weight. James Watt applied the first screw propeller to an engine at his Birmingham works.
The SS Normandie launched in 1938 held the title of largest passenger steamship ever built. The Titanic sank in 1912 while being the largest steamship in the world at that time.
The opening of the Suez Canal occurred in 1869 and saved about seven thousand miles on the route from China to London. Steamships immediately utilized this waterway and found high demand during the 1870 tea season.