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74 relations: Alexander Carnegie Kirk, American Civil War, Atlantic Ocean, Beam engine, Boiler, Boiler feedwater, Bore (engine), Center of mass, Charlotte Dundas, Compound engine, Compound steam engine, Connecting rod, Crankshaft, Cunard Line, David Napier (marine engineer), Draft (hull), Dumbarton, Europe, Evaporator (marine), Flywheel, Fremantle, Glasgow, Govan, Gudgeon pin, Henry Eckford (steamboat), Henry Maudslay, Hercules (1907), HMS Black Eagle, Internal combustion engine, James P. Allaire, John Elder (shipbuilder), John Ericsson, John Penn (engineer), Joshua Hendy Iron Works, Keel, Liberty ship, Liverpool, Lydia Eva (steam drifter), Marine propulsion, Mariner's Mirror, Monitor (warship), North River Steamboat, Paddle steamer, Paddle wheel, Philadelphia, Propeller, Reciprocating engine, Return connecting rod engine, Revolutions per minute, Riverboat, ..., RMS Persia, Robert Fulton, Royal Navy, Savannah, Georgia, Scotland, SS Aberdeen (1881), Steam engine, Steam hammer, Steam turbine, Steamboat, Stroke (engine), Stroke ratio, Sweden, Thomas Newcomen, Transatlantic crossing, Tugboat, United States, United States Merchant Marine Academy, Victory ship, Waterline, Western Australian Museum, William Cramp & Sons, William Symington, World War II. Expand index (24 more) »
Alexander Carnegie Kirk
Alexander Carnegie Kirk (16 July 1830 – 5 October 1892) was a Scottish engineer responsible for several major innovations in the shipbuilding, refrigeration, and oil shale industries of the 19th century.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Beam engine
A beam engine is a type of steam engine where a pivoted overhead beam is used to apply the force from a vertical piston to a vertical connecting rod.
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Boiler
A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.
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Boiler feedwater
Boiler feedwater is an essential part of boiler operations.
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Bore (engine)
The bore or cylinder bore is a part of a piston engine.
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Center of mass
In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space is the unique point where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero, or the point where if a force is applied it moves in the direction of the force without rotating.
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Charlotte Dundas
Charlotte Dundas is regarded as the world's second successful steamboat, the first towing steamboat and the boat that demonstrated the practicality of steam power for ships.
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Compound engine
A compound engine is an engine that has more than one stage for recovering energy from the same working fluid, with the exhaust from the first stage passing through the second stage, and in some cases then on to another subsequent stage or even stages.
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Compound steam engine
A compound steam engine unit is a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages.
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Connecting rod
A connecting rod is a shaft which connects a piston to a crank or crankshaft in a reciprocating engine.
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Crankshaft
A crankshaft—related to crank—is a mechanical part able to perform a conversion between reciprocating motion and rotational motion.
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Cunard Line
Cunard Line is a British-American cruise line based at Carnival House at Southampton, England, operated by Carnival UK and owned by Carnival Corporation & plc.
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David Napier (marine engineer)
David Napier (1790–1869) was a Scottish marine engineer.
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Draft (hull)
The draft or draught of a ship's hull is the vertical distance between the waterline and the bottom of the hull (keel), with the thickness of the hull included; in the case of not being included the draft outline would be obtained.
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Dumbarton
Dumbarton is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the north bank of the River Clyde where the River Leven flows into the Clyde estuary.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Evaporator (marine)
An evaporator, distiller or distilling apparatus is a piece of ship's equipment used to produce fresh drinking water from sea water by distillation.
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Flywheel
A flywheel is a mechanical device specifically designed to efficiently store rotational energy.
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Fremantle
Fremantle is a major Australian port city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River.
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Glasgow
Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.
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Govan
Govan (Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghobhainn) is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of south-west City of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Gudgeon pin
In internal combustion engines, the gudgeon pin (UK, wrist pin US) connects the piston to the connecting rod and provides a bearing for the connecting rod to pivot upon as the piston moves.
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Henry Eckford (steamboat)
Henry Eckford was a small passenger-cargo steamboat built in New York in 1824.
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Henry Maudslay
Henry Maudslay (pronunciation and spelling) (22 August 1771 – 14 February 1831) was a British machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor.
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Hercules (1907)
Hercules is a 1907-built steam tugboat that is now preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in San Francisco, California.
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HMS Black Eagle
HMS Firebrand was a wooden paddle vessel launched in 1831.
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Internal combustion engine
An internal combustion engine (ICE) is a heat engine where the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.
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James P. Allaire
James Peter Allaire (July 12, 1785 – May 20, 1858) was a noted master mechanic and steam engine builder, and founder of the Allaire Iron Works (est. 1815), the first marine steam engine company in New York City, and later Howell Works (est. 1822), in Wall Township, New Jersey.
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John Elder (shipbuilder)
John Elder (8 March 1824 – 17 September 1869) was a Scottish marine engineer and shipbuilder.
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John Ericsson
John Ericsson (born Johan) (July 31, 1803 – March 8, 1889) was a Swedish-American inventor, active in England and the United States, and regarded as one of the most influential mechanical engineers ever.
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John Penn (engineer)
John Penn FRS (1805–1878) was an English marine engineer whose firm was pre-eminent in the middle of the 19th century due to his innovations in engine and propeller systems, which led his firm to be the major supplier to the Royal Navy as it made the transition from sail to steam power.
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Joshua Hendy Iron Works
The Joshua Hendy Iron Works was an American engineering company that existed from the 1850s to the late 1940s.
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Keel
On boats and ships, the keel is either of two parts: a structural element that sometimes resembles a fin and protrudes below a boat along the central line, or a hydrodynamic element.
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Liberty ship
Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.
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Lydia Eva (steam drifter)
The Lydia Eva is the last surviving steam drifter of the herring fishing fleet based in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
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Marine propulsion
Marine propulsion is the mechanism or system used to generate thrust to move a ship or boat across water.
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Mariner's Mirror
The Mariner's Mirror is the quarterly academic journal of the Society for Nautical Research in the United Kingdom.
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Monitor (warship)
A monitor was a relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armoured but carried disproportionately large guns.
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North River Steamboat
The North River Steamboat or North River, colloquially known as the Clermont, is widely regarded as the world's first vessel to demonstrate the viability of using steam propulsion for commercial water transportation.
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Paddle steamer
A paddle steamer is a steamship or riverboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water.
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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.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.
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Propeller
A propeller is a type of fan that transmits power by converting rotational motion into thrust.
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Reciprocating engine
A reciprocating engine, also often known as a piston engine, is typically a heat engine (although there are also pneumatic and hydraulic reciprocating engines) that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert pressure into a rotating motion.
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Return connecting rod engine
A return connecting rod, return piston rod or (in marine parlance) double piston rod engine or back-acting engine is a particular layout for a steam engine.
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Revolutions per minute
Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, rev/min, r/min) is the number of turns in one minute.
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Riverboat
A riverboat is a watercraft designed for inland navigation on lakes, rivers, and artificial waterways.
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RMS Persia
Persia was a British passenger liner operated by the Cunard Line that won the Blue Riband in 1856 for the fastest westbound transatlantic voyage.
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Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 25, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing a commercially successful steamboat called The North River Steamboat of Clermonts.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Savannah, Georgia
Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and is the county seat of Chatham County.
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Scotland
Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
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SS Aberdeen (1881)
SS Aberdeen was a British cargo liner; the first ship to be successfully powered by a triple expansion steam engine.
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Steam engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid.
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Steam hammer
A steam hammer, also called a drop hammer, is an industrial power hammer driven by steam that is used for tasks such as shaping forgings and driving piles.
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Steam turbine
A steam turbine is a device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam and uses it to do mechanical work on a rotating output shaft.
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Steamboat
A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels.
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Stroke (engine)
In the context of an Internal combustion engine, the term stroke has the following related meanings.
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Stroke ratio
In a reciprocating piston engine, the stroke ratio, defined by either bore/stroke ratio or stroke/bore ratio, is a term to describe the ratio between cylinder bore diameter and piston stroke.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Thomas Newcomen
Thomas Newcomen (February 1664 – 5 August 1729) was an English inventor who created the first practical steam engine in 1712, the Newcomen atmospheric engine.
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Transatlantic crossing
The Transatlantic crossings are passages of passengers and cargo across the Atlantic Ocean between the Americas and Europe or Africa.
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Tugboat
A tug (tugboat or towboat) is a type of vessel that maneuvers other vessels by pushing or pulling them either by direct contact or by means of a tow line.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Merchant Marine Academy
The United States Merchant Marine Academy (also known as USMMA or Kings Point) is one of the five United States service academies, located in Kings Point, New York.
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Victory ship
The Victory ship was a class of cargo ship produced in large numbers by North American shipyards during World War II to replace losses caused by German submarines.
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Waterline
The waterline is the line where the hull of a ship meets the surface of the water.
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Western Australian Museum
The Western Australian Museum is the state museum for Western Australia.
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William Cramp & Sons
William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company (also known as William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Company) of Philadelphia was founded in 1830 by William Cramp, and was the preeminent U.S. iron shipbuilder of the late 19th century.
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William Symington
William Symington (1764–1831) was a Scottish engineer and inventor, and the builder of the first practical steamboat, the Charlotte Dundas.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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