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Before Rouse, the same waterfront featured a steamship terminal and docks, and even at its 1979 groundbreaking, Harborplace was not seen as a sure thing.
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Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2024
At first, white southerners grew peaches mostly for making brandy or feeding hogs, but by the time of the Civil War, some found a profitable business shipping fresh fruit to the northeast by steamship or railroad.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 July 2024
Credit: Advanced Navigation Ross Anderson, curator of the Western Australia Museum, was able to identify the wreck as an iron coal hulk once used in Freemantle Port to service steamships, probably built in the 1860s–1890s and scuttled in the graveyard sometime in the 1920s.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
Looking back in history, the steam engine developed by James Watt in 1769 not only revolutionized the power of machines but also revolutionized locomotion when applied to steamships and steam locomotives.
—Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
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Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2024
At first, white southerners grew peaches mostly for making brandy or feeding hogs, but by the time of the Civil War, some found a profitable business shipping fresh fruit to the northeast by steamship or railroad.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 1 July 2024
Credit: Advanced Navigation Ross Anderson, curator of the Western Australia Museum, was able to identify the wreck as an iron coal hulk once used in Freemantle Port to service steamships, probably built in the 1860s–1890s and scuttled in the graveyard sometime in the 1920s.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
Looking back in history, the steam engine developed by James Watt in 1769 not only revolutionized the power of machines but also revolutionized locomotion when applied to steamships and steam locomotives.
—Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
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“Steamship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steamship. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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steamship
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