steamboat

As a child, he watched with great interest the steamboats, large and small, that carried goods and passengers up and down the Mississippi.

You could float one of those Mississippi steamboats on a heavy dew.

High- powered steamboats began to carry goods and passengers on rivers and seas .

by the 1870s , they had replaced the steamboats as the major transporter of goods and passengers within the united states.

Marable's band played on steamboats that traveled up and down the Mississippi River.

Many steamboats could boast of famous chefs, orchestras, and large staffs of maids and butlers to assist their cabin passengers.

Howes says steamboats and rail lines linked growing cities that offered opportunities for talented young people.

As early as 1838, Congress created the Steamboat Inspection Service to check the safety steamboats and reduce the risk of explosions.

By 1863 the Northern war economy was rumbling along in high gear. Everything from steamboats to shovels was needed and produced.

The first steamboats were slow by modern standards--certainly not fast enough for water-skiing.

The steamboats' major cargoes were cotton and sugar, along with passengers.

And the steamboats, though their reign was longer, were ephemeral craft.

During the 1840s, steamboats began running between Herne Bay and London.

Mississippi River steamboats increased to 400 by 1840, and local commerce skyrocketed in value, reaching $54 million by 1835.

and those beads led to steamboats and skyscrapers