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2. Paddle steamer - Wikipedia

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   A typical river paddle steamer from the 1850s. Fall Line's steamer Providence, launched 1866 Finlandia Queen, a paddle-wheel ship from 1990s in Tampere, Finland [1]. A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine driving paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water.

3. List of extant paddle steamers - Wikipedia

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   A few paddle steamers serve niche tourism needs as cruise boats on lakes [a] and others, such as Delta Queen, still operate on the Mississippi River. In Oregon , several replica paddle steamers , which are non-steam-powered sternwheelers built in the 1980s and later, are operated for tourism purposes on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers .

4. Chrysopolis (sidewheeler) - Wikipedia

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   It had two side-wheels 32 feet in diameter with 8 foot buckets (the wooden blades of a paddle wheel). It could carry 1,000 passengers and 700 tons of cargo at great speed. On December 31, 1861, it made the record setting run for a steamboat over the 120 mile distance between Sacramento and San Francisco in 5 hours and 19 minutes, making an ...

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6. Steamship - Wikipedia

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   The British side-wheel paddle steamer SS Great Western was the first steamship purpose-built for regularly scheduled trans-Atlantic crossings, starting in 1838. In 1836 Isambard Kingdom Brunel and a group of Bristol investors formed the Great Western Steamship Company to build a line of steamships for the Bristol-New York route. [ 14 ]

7. Arabia (steamboat) - Wikipedia

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   The paddlewheel of Arabia is located at the Arabia Steamboat Museum in Kansas City.. The Arabia was built in 1853 around the Monongahela River in Brownsville, Pennsylvania.Its paddle wheels were 28 feet (8.5 m) across, and its steam boilers consumed approximately thirty cords of wood per day.

8. Paddle wheel - Wikipedia

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   The paddle wheel is a device for converting between rotary motion of a shaft and linear motion of a fluid. In the linear-to-rotary direction, it is placed in a fluid stream to convert the linear motion of the fluid into rotation of the wheel. Such a rotation can be used as a source of power, or as an indication of the speed of flow.

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   Walmart's amazing sale on the Shark Navigator has the vacuum marked down to just $97, which means it's over half off its usual price — we haven't seen this fan-favorite cleaner this low in ...