steamship
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steamships
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Origin of steamship
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In 1878, he accepted a position as an engineer aboard the Ironsides, a British steamship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
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
It said the documents, which arrived in Argentina on board the Nan-a-Maru steamship from Tokyo in June 1941, had been declared as "personal effects" by the German embassy in Buenos Aires at the time.
From BBC ● May 12, 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
European newspapers, letters from earlier immigrants, and advertisements from steamship companies were filled with accounts of tables groaning with food in a country where everyone could get rich.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
The resource powered steamships, heated homes, and supported metal production through coking processes.
From Science Daily ● May 6, 2026
Even with steamships, information had taken two weeks to get from Europe to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 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
The dynamic forces behind this era of globalization were breakthroughs in hardware—from steamships and railroads in the beginning to telephones and mainframe computers toward the end.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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