Labels:text | ship | transport | boat | vehicle | watercraft OCR: B MISO C SHIP paddle wheel, removing the ship's reliance on winds. Another turning E point came a few years later, when F the first iron boat was constructed. G This was much stronger and safer H than its wooden predecessors. I In the early 19th century, the K --- screw propeller replaced the paddle wheel as a more efficient means of M propulsion. As it was submerged, it N was more resistant to collision and P damage than a paddle wheel. Then in the late 19th century, the R T HE FIRST SEA-GOING vessels newly invented internal combustion S were used in the Stone Age. A engine began to be adapted for use T u pine dugout canoe found at Pese in V Holland dates from about 7000 BC. on ships. Today, very few ships are still driven by steam. W The first sailing ships were made in X Egypt around 3000 BC. Y Z In 1783, the first steamboat was M built with an engine which drove a Ship S
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