Blog posts categorized by Applying Science
Learning to operate the Mississippi River
Bill Nuttle ·
9 July 2015
| Applying Science | Learning Science |
Re-engineering the Mississippi River presents political as well as technical challenges. Advances in technology since the beginning of the industrial revolution have transformed both transportation along the Mississippi River and the river itself. The invention of the paddlewheel steamboat in the early 1800s offered a radical advance over previous, more primitive modes of river transportation. By the 1830s, steamboats regularly moved people and goods along the Mississippi and its tributaries.
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