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Website. 1856.com. The Arabia Steamboat Museum is a history museum in Kansas City, Missouri, housing artifacts salvaged from the Arabia, a steamboat that sank in the Missouri River in 1856. The 30,000-square-foot museum opened on November 13, 1991, in the Kansas City River Market. [1] The museum is operated by the partners of River Salvage Inc ...
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. It averaged 5 miles (8.0 km) per hour going upstream.
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American Royal Museum: Greater Downtown: Agriculture: Open by appointment, exhibits about horse and livestock shows, rodeos and agriculture Arabia Steamboat Museum: River Market: Museum ship: Recovered mid-19th-century side wheeler steamboat and artifacts Battle of Westport Museum & Visitor Center: South Kansas City: History
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John Fitch (inventor) John Fitch. John Fitch (January 21, 1743 – July 2, 1798) was an American inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur, and engineer. He was most famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States. The first boat, 45 feet long, was tested on the Delaware River by Fitch and his design assistant Steven Pagano.
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