steam-boat

Many other examples of collective innovation: Lyon silk industry, Berkshire paper-making; Western steam-boat; Viennese chairs; Japanese cotton spinning; Norwegian brewing; wind power in Zankstreek.

Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

My father, on learning the facts, bade me at once have everything ready by nine this evening, in time to drive to the train that meets the night steam-boat.

A Changed Man 2006

When a noble marchioness writes in her travels about the hard necessity under which steam-boat travellers labour of being brought into contact

The Book of Snobs 2006

There should have been a poet in our company to describe that charming little bay of Glaucus, into which we entered on the 26th of September, in the first steam-boat that ever disturbed its beautiful waters.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

I suspect (but the subject is a very obscure one) that a wave, however produced, first draws the water from the shore, on which it is advancing to break: I have observed that this happens with the little waves from the paddles of a steam-boat.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

I suspect (but the subject is a very obscure one) that a wave, however produced, first draws the water from the shore, on which it is advancing to break: I have observed that this happens with the little waves from the paddles of a steam-boat.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

On the steam-boat we were kept in a close room, where slaves are usually confined, so that I saw nothing of the passengers on board, or the towns we passed.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

Between fifty and sixty slaves were chained together, put on board a steam-boat bound for New Orleans, and started on the voyage.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

The steam-boat on the lake is an attractive object in such a district as

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829 Various

The entrance to this motley scene was by the principal gate, where the carriages set down their company, and at a short distance along the bank of the river, the steam-boat in like manner contributed its visiters.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 Various