steamboat

     

A steamboat or steamship, sometimes calle a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving a propeller or paddlewheel.

Trivia about steamboat

  • "Fulton's Folly"
  • In 1811 the first of these to ply the Ohio River was built in Pittsburgh--the New Orleans, named for where it was headed
  • It's the title mode of transportation for 1928's "Willie"
  • The Delta Queen, this type of river boat, originally ran between San Francisco & Sacramento
  • John Fitch launched a vessel of this type in 1787, 16 years before Robert Fulton
  • This type of transport on St. Louis' official seal symbolizes the city's early growth
  • John Fitch built a mechanically successful one of these almost 20 years before Fulton
  • The hotel that Chester Nimitz' grandfather founded in Texas is in the shape of one of these

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