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  2. John Dolbeer - Wikipedia

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    John Dolbeer (March 12, 1827 – August 17, 1902) was a partner in the Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., one of the early major Humboldt County, California lumber operations based in Eureka. While in that business, he invented the logging engine, more commonly known as the steam donkey or donkey engine. This invaluable equipment, especially with ...

  3. Berkeley (ferryboat) - Wikipedia

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    Berkeley was one of several ferryboats of the Southern Pacific Railroad that for sixty years operated on San Francisco Bay between the Oakland Pier and the San Francisco Ferry Building. Built in 1898 by the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, she served after the 1906 earthquake , ferrying refugees across the bay to Oakland .

  4. File:SS Humboldt engine room.jpg - Wikipedia

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  5. James Rumsey - Wikipedia

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    steam powered water-jet propulsion James Rumsey (1743 – December 21, 1792) was an American mechanical engineer chiefly known for exhibiting a boat propelled by machinery in 1787 on the Potomac River at Shepherdstown in present-day West Virginia before a crowd of local notables, including Horatio Gates .

  6. Fort Humboldt State Historic Park - Wikipedia

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    Fort Humboldt State Historic Park is a California state park, located in Eureka, California, United States.Its displays interpret the former U.S. Army fort, which was staffed from 1853 to 1870, the interactions between European Americans and Native Americans in roughly the same period, logging equipment and local narrow gauge railroad history of the region.

  7. El Primero - Wikipedia

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    El Primero (constructed in San Francisco, California) was the first steam yacht built on the west coast of the United States. The yacht had an auxiliary sail rig. The yacht had an auxiliary sail rig. The steam engine was rated at 225 indicated horsepower , driving the vessel at a maximum speed of 13.5 knots.

  8. SS Col. James M. Schoonmaker - Wikipedia

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    She was powered by a triple expansion steam engine which was replaced by a steam turbine in 1955. She sailed as part of the Shenango fleet until 1969 when she was sold to the Interlake Steamship Company who chartered Col James M. Schoonmaker to the Republic Steel Corporation .

  9. Ticonderoga (steamboat) - Wikipedia

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    Ticonderoga is a museum ship and one of just two [a] remaining sidewheel passenger steamers with an intact walking beam engine of the type that powered countless thousands of American freight and passenger vessels on America's bays, lakes and rivers for more than a century.