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Columbia was the first ship to carry a dynamo powering electric lights instead of oil lamps and the first commercial use of electric light bulbs outside of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory. [7] [11] [12] Due to this, a detailed article and composite illustration of Columbia was featured in the May 1880 issue of Scientific ...
From 1825 to 1848 the average number of ships traveling to California increased to about 25 ships per year—a large increase from the average of 2.5 ships per year from 1769 to 1824. [27] The port of entry for trading purposes was the Alta California Capital, Monterey, California , where customs duties ( tariffs ) of about 100% were applied.
In 1962, Pacific Electric trains along the Pacific Ocean were used for the last time to deliver boats to Newport Beach. In 1963, the first phase of Eastbluff, the first "community" to be developed under the Irvine Company's master plan, was opened. In 1967, Fashion Island was completed.
The ship channel was improved in order to accommodate large Panamax class ships. The Navy Rough and Ready Island Naval Supply Depot built during World War II was phased out of use as a result of special federal legislation sponsored by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in 1995. It was transferred to the port between 2000 and 2003.
General Machinery delivered its first engine to Todd California Shipbuilding Corporation for installation in Ocean Vanguard. [9] All the ships had "Ocean" names, but at the time of construction were sometimes referred to as British Victory ships as in the Berkeley Daily Gazette announcement on May 20, 1942 that "the Richmond Shipyards today are ...
This power station was designed by San Francisco architect Frederick Meyer, one of many designed for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in Northern California between 1905 and the 1920s. It is a one-story rectangular industrial building, 25 feet (7.6 m) high, 53 feet (16 m) wide and 110 feet (34 m) long, that rests on a concrete base.
SS California was the World's first major ocean liner built with turbo-electric propulsion. [9] When launched in 1927 she was also the largest merchant ship yet built in the US, [10] although she was a modest size compared with the biggest European liners of her era. In 1938 California was renamed SS Uruguay. [2]
USS Dolphin AGSS-555, diesel-electric submarine launched in 1968 and decommissioned in 2007; PCF-816 (formerly C24 or P24), 1968 Patrol Craft Fast that was transferred to Malta in 1971 and decommissioned in 2011; San Salvador, a replica of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo's galleon which was the first European ship to visit San Diego Bay in 1542. [4]