paddlewheel (Other Keyword)
1-1 (1 Record)
Paddlewheels Ahoy! Archaeology of the Oldest Existing Steam Propulsion System (2023)
DOCUMENT
Citation Only
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Phoenix (1814-1819) is the earliest archaeologically-studied steamboat, built just 8 years after America’s first commercially-successful steamer, North River. Phoenix operated for five seasons until it suddenly burned and sank in Lake Champlain, Vermont, in September 1819. In the 2010s, the hull was documented and studied by the...