How To Use Paddle wheel In A Sentence
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My new fear was that the paddle-boxes would be stove into matchwood this actually happened to the Ostend boat that same night about 40 miles away and naked paddle wheels are rather dangerous things.
Weatherwatch
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He found that the temperature of the water rose as he cranked the paddle wheel.
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Even the churned foam from a paddle wheel is _café au lait_ with what a blue-jacket contemptuously referred to as "a little more of the _au lait!
A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden
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This eliminated paddle wheels and allowed machinery to be located well within the ship and below the waterline, making it less vulnerable and freeing topside space for guns.
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During a transition period at midcentury, the largest warships retained masts and sails while adding steampower and either paddle wheels or screw propellers.
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In 1845, the British Admiralty sponsored a demonstration to determine which was superior, the paddle wheel or screw propeller; the latter clearly won.
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But steamships were improving as the screw propeller replaced the paddle wheel and iron replaced wood.
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It shows cannons protruding from either side of the paddle wheel, a military band playing on deck, pipe-smoking officers in an open deckhouse, and soldiers striding about with shouldered rifles.
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The front wheel doubles as a paddle wheel and has no hub but instead tracks along its rim.
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now I'm really fantastic at drawing this mechanical device, but you can imagine that dropping a weight can cause a paddle wheel to turn.
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In its rigging, sails, banners, planks, and deeply curved outline, the ship most resembles a seagoing Chinese junk, with the addition of paddle wheel and funnel.
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The crank shaft turned the paddle shaft, which ultimately turned the paddle wheel.
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With a paddle wheel on each side of the ship, it was found far more convenient in terms of visibility to command the ship from a bridge across the driving machinery between the two wheels.
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In one design, two or more horses walked in a circle on deck, turning a capstan amidships that was geared to a paddle wheel set between a pair of catamaran-like hulls.
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Although the paddle wheels were beginning to pick up a slow and even rhythm, even Kharl could tell that the ship was losing headway and might soon even lose steerageway.
Wellspring of Chaos
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In one design, two or more horses walked in a circle on deck, turning a capstan amidships that was geared to a paddle wheel set between a pair of catamaran-like hulls.
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The Seastag moved slowly northward, then hove to off the southern breakwater, waiting, the paddle wheels turning just enough to keep the ship with bare steerageway.
Wellspring of Chaos
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They took inspiration from mechanical models such as propellers and paddle wheels.