Maritime & Aviation
SS Great Eastern
Great Eastern was an exceptionally large iron steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Equipped with paddle wheels and a screw propeller, it later found an important role laying submarine telegraph cables.
About this artifact
Great Eastern was an exceptionally large iron steamship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Equipped with paddle wheels and a screw propeller, it later found an important role laying submarine telegraph cables.
Sources & image credits
Documented image of this machine or its operating principle; see image credits for the original date and subject.
Image: Great_Eastern_1866-crop.jpg
Creator: most likely Robert Edward Holloway (d. 1904) according to source
License: Public domain
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