SS Archimedes
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ss-archimedes-172-11566955
title:
SS Archimedes
text:
SS Archimedes was a steamship built in Britain in 1839. She was the world's first steamship to be driven successfully by a screw propeller. Archimedes had considerable influence on ship development, encouraging the adoption of screw propulsion by the Royal Navy, in addition to her influence on commercial vessels. She also had a direct influence on the design of another innovative vessel, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SSÂ Great Britain, then the world's largest ship and the first screw-propelled steam
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
First steamship driven by screw propeller
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Archimedes
date created:
2009-07-22T11:18:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T23:02:49Z
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