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Vintage 1900s illustration of a Feathering Paddle-wheel #177065870
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The Harmsworth Encyclopaedia 1930s / 1940s - Social history. Vintage illustration of a Feathering Paddle-wheel. A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity, paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, where the first uses were wheelers driven by animals or humans.
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