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paddle-wheel
ˈpaddle-ˌwheel [See paddle n.1 3.] 1. A wheel used for propelling a boat or ship: as originally tried, consisting of or having a series of paddles or paddle-like spokes inserted in an axle, drum, or wheel, whence the name; but, eventually, having floats or paddle-boards fitted more or less radially ...
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Paddle wheel
A paddle wheel is a form of waterwheel or impeller in which a number of paddles are set around the periphery of the wheel. rotary-to-linear direction, it is driven by a prime mover such as an electric motor or steam engine and used to pump a fluid or propel a vehicle such as a paddle-wheel
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paddle-wheel
paddle-wheeln wheel with boards round its rim which make a boat move forwards by pressing against the water as the wheel revolves 明轮; 桨轮.
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Paddle boat
Paddle boat may refer to:
Paddle steamer or paddleboat, a boat propelled by a paddle wheel
Pedalo, a boat propelled by pedalling with the feet
A paddlecraft
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Paddle steamer
When campaigning against Hou Jing in 552, the Liang dynasty (502–557) admiral Xu Shipu employed paddle-wheel boats called "water-wheel boats". In the 12th century, the Song government used paddle-wheel ships en masse to defeat opposing armies of pirates armed with their own paddle-wheel ships.
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Paddle tire
They work something like a paddle wheel on a paddle-steamer. On a 2WD or a motorbike, the rear wheel is the only drive wheel, and so putting a paddle tire on the front wheels is useless or worse, since steering performance
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Hunter Wheel
Hunter and Benjamin Harris proposed a new wheel design, which consisted of a conventional paddle wheel drum placed horizontally within the vessel, below Water was kept from entering by a cofferdam placed around the paddle wheel drum and against the side of the ship.
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Dandy (paddle steamer)
Dandy was a paddle-wheel steamer, built in England in 1823. According to the sources, he built his first steamship in 1814 and after that he continued a production of small paddle steamers.
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Porcupine Bank
The name comes from the bank's discovery in 1862 by HMS Porcupine, a British sail and paddle-wheel ship used mainly for surveying.
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Quentin Durward (disambiguation)
Quentin Durward may also refer to:
Quentin Durward (TV series), a French-German TV series
PS Quentin Durward (1823), an 1823 paddle-wheel steamer
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Rainbow (1837 ship)
The Rainbow was an iron paddle-wheel steamer for passengers and cargo, built in 1837 by John Laird in Birkenhead, England for the General Steam Navigation Notes
1837 ships
Paddle steamers
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List of Murray–Darling steamboats
Location of the paddles in paddle-wheel boats is a major design consideration: stern-wheelers are faster than side-wheelers and can navigate a narrower A single rear paddle-wheel, as in Mississippi steamers, proved unpractical.
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HMS Black Eagle
In 1856, the Black Eagle and the paddle-wheel troopship Dee were used in a trial of J Wethered's apparatus for superheated steam. References
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Ships of the Royal Navy
1831 ships
Paddle steamers of the United Kingdom
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French ship Africain
(1795), a 1-gun flûte, of uncertain origin in service May to September 1795 at Pasjes
(1819), a paddle-wheel steam aviso, decommissioned in Saint (1832), a paddle-wheel steam aviso, decommissioned in Saint Louis, Senegal, in 1838.
(1858), a paddle-wheel steam aviso, broken up in 1878.
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United States floating battery Demologos
During the Civil War, the United States Navy operated a number of iron clad steam-powered paddle-wheel gunboats as a part of the Mississippi River Squadron Paddle-wheel propulsion, more usually side-paddle configurations, in military use continued until World War II with the training aircraft carriers and
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