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2. Telephone (sternwheeler) - Wikipedia

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   The boiler was 32.5 feet long, 6.5 feet in diameter, containing 280 tubes, each 2.5 inches through, and 18 feet long. [5] Total heating surface was reported to be 3,468 square feet. [6] The purpose of having 280 tubes in the boilers was to raise steam rapidly. [1] The authorized steam pressure generated by the boilers was 140 pounds per square ...

3. USS Augusta (1853) - Wikipedia

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   The second USS Augusta was a side-wheel steamer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.She was named for the city of Augusta, Georgia.. Designed and constructed by the noted American shipbuilder, William H. Webb, the second Augusta was launched on 30 September 1852 and later completed in 1853 at New York City and operated out of that port carrying passengers and freight for ...

4. People's Transportation Company - Wikipedia

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   In the spring of 1863, development of mines east of the Cascades Mountains created a demand for shipping on the Columbia River. [3] The P.T. Company, wishing to take advantage of this, built the sidewheeler Iris at The Dalles, Oregon, to run in competition with the O.S.N. sidewheeler Idaho on the short stretch of the Columbia River between the Cascades and Celilo Rapids.

5. Double-stack rail transport - Wikipedia

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   Container ships only take 40's, 20's and also 45's above deck. 90% of the containers that these ships carry are 40-footers and 90% of the world's freight moves on container ships; so 81% of the world's freight moves by 40-foot containers. Most of these 40-foot containers are owned by non-U.S. companies like Maersk, MSC, and CMA CGM.

6. Crane (machine) - Wikipedia

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   Cranes are commonly employed in transportation for the loading and unloading of freight, in construction for the movement of materials, and in manufacturing for the assembling of heavy equipment. The first known crane machine was the shaduf , a water-lifting device that was invented in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and then appeared in ...

7. Track gauge in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The world's first operational mountain-climbing cog railway (rack-and-pinion railway), the Mount Washington Cog Railway in Coos County, New Hampshire — in operation since its opening in 1869 — uses a 4 ft 8 inch (1,422 mm) rail gauge, as designed by Sylvester Marsh, the creator of the Marsh rack system for ensuring firm traction going up ...