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Water transport and invention of Canal vessels.,Steamships

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Water transport.
Canal vessels.
- A canal is an artificial river that is used to transport people and goods.
- It may be built to link a ricer and a lake, sea or a sea with a sea.
- Canals have been used for centuries for transportation.
- The earliest canal was built by the Europeans nearly 4000 years ago to link the river Nile and the Red sea.
- The longest canal, the Grand Canal in china is bout 1900km long and it
links the Yangtze and Yellow rivers.
Steamships.
- Steamships were made after the invention of the steam driven engine.
- The first attempt to make a steamship was made by Dr. Denis Papin of France when he fitted a steam engine to a boat and sailed along river Fulda in Hanover.
- In 1736, Jonathan Holls of Gloucestershire patented a steam tugboat but it was never tried.
- In 1774, Comte J B d’Auxiron of France experimented with a steamboat but also failed like Papin as it broke down.
- In 1775, C Perier became the first person to move a small boat powered by steam engine over river Seine in Paris.
- The first successful steamboat was built and tried out in1783 by a Frenchman called Marquis de Jouffrey on River Saone near Lyons in France.
- The first USA trans-Atlantic steamers were the Herman and Washington.
- The first merchant ship to be all-welded without any rivets in its hull was the MS Fullagar in 1920.