Sentence examples for steamships- from inspiring English sources

The early colonialists went where their sails took them; only after steamships became the norm in the 19th century could they travel against the wind.As a result, some islands were colonised early, some late, for reasons that had much to do with meteorology, and rather little to do with any other intrinsic attractions the islands might offer.

But as the industrial revolution progressed, steamships and railways slashed transport costs, exposing firms to foreign competition for the first time.

His steamships issue black smoke, adding to the range of colours in his sky.

Only in the late 19th century did multi-effect evaporators for desalination begin to appear on steamships and in arid countries such as Yemen and Sudan.A few multi-effect distillation plants were built in the first half of the 20th century, but a flaw in the system hampered its widespread adoption.

"The extension and use of railroads, steamships, telegraphs, break down nationalities and bring peoples geographically remote into close connection commercially and politically.

They soon had a factory in Cathcart, on the outskirts of Glasgow, making boiler pumps for steamships and devices for purifying salt water.

The head of the nascent Chinese Communist Party mocked dreamers like him for seeking to "destroy our railroads, our steamships and our printing presses in order to return to woodblock printing, the canoe carved from a tree-trunk, the wheelbarrow".

Into one end of the plant went iron ore, coal, sand and rubber, brought in by railway and on Great Lakes steamships.

(The broad masses went too, as empires, steamships and railways made travel cheaper and easier).

In December 1884, 282 bumblebee queens left London for Wellington on the "Tongariro", one of the first steamships with a refrigeration unit, in which they could safely hibernate.

In "The Clash", a 1998 book on the history of American-Japanese relations, Walter LaFeber argues that America's main goal in opening Japan was not so much to trade bilaterally, as to enlist Japan's support in creating a global marketplace including, in particular, China.At first, the United States opened Japan because it was on the way to China and had coal for American steamships.