5 sentences with 'steamboat'
Example sentences and phrases with the word steamboat and other words derived from it.
• « Advances in medicine were joined by advances in transport. The steamboat, with its power to travel both with and against the flow of rivers, enabled Europeans to move inland to Africa (and also to many parts of Asia). »
• « Fulton's first steamboat, the Clermont, used paddlewheels to travel the 150 miles from New York City to Albany in a record time of only thirty-two hours. »
• « Steamboats also arrived much more reliably. The steamboat facilitated the rapid economic development of the vast Mississippi River Valley and the settlement of the West. »
• « In the first half of the 19th century, it rose to prominence and importance largely because of the cotton boom, steamboat traffic and its strategic position near the mouth of the Mississippi River. »
• « Slaves, cotton and the steamboat transformed the city from a relatively isolated corner of North America in the 18th century to a thriving metropolis that rivalled New York in importance. »