[American steam packet vessel at port in Le Havre, France] / Auguste Lacroix, photographe, Havre.
Summary
Photograph shows American commercial ship with American flag flying from foremast and commercial flag flying from mainmast.
Ship was formerly identified as U.S.S. Kearsarge.
Date based on years Lacroix and Autin were associated in Le Havre.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2014; (DLC/PP 2014:202)
Purchased from: Medhurst & Co., North Liberty, Iowa, 2014.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
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Steam Machines, Engines, Locomotives. In 1781 James Watt patented a steam engine that produced continuous rotary motion. Watt's ten-horsepower engines enabled a wide range of manufacturing machinery to be powered. The engines could be sited anywhere that water and coal or wood fuel could be obtained. By 1883, engines that could provide 10,000 hp had become feasible. The steam engine was one of the most important technologies of the Industrial Revolution.
Just an assorted steamships collection for research.
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