steamship
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steamships
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Within the fair’s 200 buildings, they were dazzled by inventions including an enormous Corliss steam engine, the first typing machine featuring a qwerty keyboard and a working model of a steamship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
A gold pocket watch presented to the captain of the Carpathia, the steamship which rescued more than 700 Titanic survivors, sold last year for a then record-breaking £1.56m.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
In the weeks after the councilman’s death, Crescent City — the Del Norte County seat with a thriving Chinatown — every steamship that left the local port held Chinese residents from the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025
From 1815 to 1914, London presided over an expanding global system marked by industry, capital exports and colonial conquests, all spurred by the integration of the planet via railroad, steamship, telegraph and ultimately radio.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2024
I followed a few other islanders along the boardwalk toward the steamship.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
Nicknamed “the Commodore,” he moved from steamships to rail in 1863, taking over New York’s Harlem and Hudson River railroads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The resource powered steamships, heated homes, and supported metal production through coking processes.
From Science Daily ● May 6, 2026
Indeed, history is filled with examples of this, from the medieval Black Death hitchhiking along the Silk Road to the “Russian flu” pandemic of the late 19th century that was accelerated by trains and steamships.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
The Britannic was the third of the White Star Line company's Olympic class of steamships, along with the RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025
“My great-grandfather,” Volkheimer says all of a sudden, “was a sawyer in the years before steamships, when everything went by sail.”
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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