Sentence examples for steamship technology from inspiring English sources
Even before the advent of jet airliners, piston-engine transports had usurped traditional railway and steamship technology as the principal mode of transport for long-distance trips.
By the late 19th century, steamship technology allowed ice to be harvested in vast blocks in America or Canada and sped across the Atlantic to be sold as a luxury item in British department stores.
Railroad and steamship technology had made transportation much cheaper, but until political and economic barriers came down, people, goods and money couldn't take advantage of this technology.
British imperial strength was underpinned by the steamship and the telegraph, new technologies invented in the second half of the 19th century, allowing it to control and defend the empire.
In the 1920s a fashion emerged for composing what was called "machine music"—the depiction in music of the sounds of factories, locomotives, steamships, dynamos, and other aspects of recent technology that both reflected modern, urban life and appealed to the then-prevalent spirit of objectivity, detachment, and directness.
The key to comprehending this "crisis" of response lies in the role of the risk takers whose willingness to back untested technology has propelled American growth from steamships to the World Wide Web.
Most of our technology is removed, though there are steam trains and steamships, and you can travel from Oxford to London by Zeppelin.
The new technology reached its peak in the age of the railway and the steamship.
He argues forcefully that it was "the earliest example of a truly modern war — fought with new industrial technologies, modern rifles, steamships and railways, novel forms of logistics and communication like the telegraph, important innovations in military medicine and war reporters and photographers directly on the scene".
Globalisation and new technology the telephone, the steamship, the train had knitted the world together.
The steamship Arabella sails on.
