Steamship

Examples

• The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, owned by the North German Lloyd Company, and built in 1897, is shown in Fig. 114, and for three years held the record as the fastest steamship afloat. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The very beautiful and substantial side-wheel steamship Quaker City has been chartered for the occasion, and will leave New York June 8th. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The railway, the steamship, and the telegraphic cable were indeed changing all the conditions of colonial development. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The first steamship to put to sea was also an American, the _Ph?nix_, which went from New York (Hoboken) to Philadelphia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In fact it was the steam hammer which first rendered the large steamship possible. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The steamship lines were carrying Americans out of the various ports of the country at the rate of four or five thousand a week in the aggregate. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I was taken by Johnson direct from the Inman Steamship pier to 65 Fifth Avenue, and met Edison for the first time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The problem of aerial navigation was to master the currents of the air as the sailing-vessel and the steamship had overcome the waves and tides at sea. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Transatlantic steamship navigation was started in 1819. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The surface condenser was used by Hall in 1838 on the steamship Wilberforce, and Sickels in 1841 invented the drop cut-off. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• On the night of February 17, 1864, one of the Davids, the Hunley, blew up the steamship Housatonic in Charleston harbor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The screw steamship followed rather slowly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Not until the middle of the century did the tonnage of steamships upon the sea begin to overhaul that of sailing-ships. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The idea that steamships could not be safely run at a greater speed than ten or twelve miles an hour was now abandoned. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Still larger and possibly swifter steamships are in process of construction, viz. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We coasted past the sharp bows of a navy of great steamships and stopped at last at a government building on a stone pier. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To the steam hammer we owe the first heavy armor plate for our battle ships and the propeller shafts of our earlier steamships. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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