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Paddle Paddle
Paddle Background A paddle is an implement for manually moving and guiding a small boat. A paddle consists of a shaft with a broad flat surface, called a blade, on one or both ends. The area where the blade joins or tapers into the shaft is called the throat. Paddles differ... Read more
paddle steamer paddle steamer
paddle steamer, a vessel with paddle wheels usually driven by the earliest forms of steam propulsion. The type which has two, one on either side mounted amidships, was known as a side-wheeler; the other, where a single paddle wheel is mounted at the stern, was known as a stern-wheeler. They were... Read more
Charlotte Dundas Charlotte Dundas
Charlotte Dundas, the first vessel in the world to use steam propulsion commercially. She was a small wooden paddle steamer, with a steam engine designed by William Symington. Built on the River Clyde to the order of Lord Dundas, a governor of the Forth and Clyde Canal, she was named after his... Read more
wild rice wild rice
wild rice tall aquatic plant ( Zizania aquatica ) of the family Gramineae ( grass family), of a genus separate from common rice ( Oryza ). Wild rice (called also Canada rice, Indian rice, and water oats) is a hardy annual with broad blades, reedy stems, and large terminal panicles. It grows best... Read more
Surfboard Surfboard
Surfboard Background A surfboard is used in the sport of surfing. A typical surfboard is about 18-24 inches (46-61 cm) wide, 72-120 inches (183-305 cm) long, and several inches thick. It has a lightweight, buoyant core covered with a hard shell. In use, the surfer lays face... Read more
tug tug
tug, a specially designed vessel which tows other vessels, or dumb barges, though it pushes them, too. In the West the earliest known ones were paddle-wheel boats, and among the first to use steam propulsion were two Royal Navy tugs, the Comet and Monkey. These were purchased in 1822 and were... Read more
HMS Birkenhead HMS Birkenhead
Birkenhead, HMS, 1852. On 25 February 1852 at night the paddle-steamer Birkenhead taking 480 soldiers and 13 women and children for the Kaffir War struck a rock and sank off Cape Town. The troops were ordered to stand fast on deck to avoid swamping the women's boat and almost all perished in... Read more
Denis Papin Denis Papin
Denis Papin , 1647-1712?, French physicist and inventor. He was an assistant of Christian Huygens and of Robert Boyle and was professor of mathematics at the Univ. of Marburg (1687-96). He invented (1679) a steam digester (forerunner of the autoclave), a vessel in which the boiling point of water is... Read more
Thomas Savery Thomas Savery
Thomas Savery c.1650-1715, English engineer. He became a military engineer, rising to the rank of captain by 1702. He spent his free time performing experiments in mechanics, inventing such devices as a machine for polishing plate glass and a contrivance employing paddle wheels to move becalmed... Read more
Ecotourism Ecotourism
Ecotourism Ecotourism and sustainable development Ecotourism enterprises Resources Ecotourism, short for ecological tourism, refers to outdoor recreation, sightseeing, and guided natural history studies in remote or fragile natural areas, or archeological and cultural sites. It was created... Read more

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