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  2. Trunk (luggage) - Wikipedia

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    A steamer trunk dating from the late 1890s to early 1900s. Steamer trunks (named after their location of storage in the cabin of a steam ship, or "steamer") which are sometimes referred to as flat-tops, first appeared in the late 1870s, although the greater bulk of them date from the 1880–1920 period. They are distinguished by either their ...

  3. Marine steam engine - Wikipedia

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    The vibrating lever, or half-trunk engine, was a development of the conventional trunk engine conceived by Swedish-American engineer John Ericsson. Ericsson needed a small, low-profile engine like the trunk engine to power the U.S. Federal government's monitors , a type of warship developed during the American Civil War that had very little ...

  4. Steamer trunk - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 10 July 2006, at 03:17 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  5. Trunk deck ship - Wikipedia

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    A trunk deck ship is a type of merchant ship with a hull that was stepped inward in order to obtain more favourable treatment under canal toll rules then in effect. As those tolls were set by net tonnage , a measure of volume, and as the tonnage rules did not account for all of the cargo space of such vessels, trunk deck ships incurred lower ...

  6. Steamship - Wikipedia

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    The paddle steamer PS Waverley at Swanage is the world's last seagoing paddle steamer An aerial starboard quarter view of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), which was the last US Navy aircraft carrier to use conventional steam power

  7. SS Adriatic (1856) - Wikipedia

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    The steamer Pacific disappeared without a trace. [22] In August 1856 Congress reduced the mail subsidy from $858,000 per year, back to its original $385,000. [ 23 ] The surviving Collins ships, Atlantic and Baltic , were worked hard for less profit and then were withdrawn from service at intervals for repair.

  8. History of steam road vehicles - Wikipedia

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    Thomson's Road steamer with charcoal wagons (engraving of 1870) Robey's Road steamer built to Thomson's design. In 1869 the road steamer built by Robert William Thomson of Edinburgh became famous because its wheels were shod with heavy solid rubber tyres. Thomson's first road steamers, manufactured in his own small workshop in Leith, were ...

  9. RMS Lucania - Wikipedia

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    Plans were soon drawn up for a large, twin-screw steamer powered by triple expansion engines, and construction began in 1891, just 43 days after Cunards' order. [1]: xli Lucania and Campania had the largest triple-expansion engines ever fitted to a Cunard ship. These engines were also the largest in the world at the time, and still rank today ...

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