# Steam-ships

Author: Fletcher, R. A.; Dixon, Charles, 1872-1934 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: History - Modern (1750+)

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72847

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Steam-ships+Fletcher&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Opinions are divided as to whether the paddle-wheel is a development from the action of a man paddling a canoe, or the result of applying to a vessel an ordinary wheel, with blades to make it bite the water; or it may be stated thus: Did the paddle-blades grow out of the wheel, or the wheel out of a number of paddle-blades? There is no satisfactory evidence one way or the other; suffice it that the idea of revolving paddles was developed.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/steam-ships-72847/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/steam-ships-72847/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/steam-ships-72847/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/steam-ships-72847/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/steam-ships-72847/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/steam-ships-72847/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/steam-ships-72847/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/steam-ships-72847/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/steam-ships-72847/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/steam-ships-72847/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/steam-ships-72847/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/steam-ships-72847/chapters/6/index.md)